{"id":21901,"date":"2016-02-10T12:47:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T20:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/should-robots-be-friends-or-tools-open-api-platforms-point-strongly-in-one-direction"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:11:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:11:47","slug":"should-robots-be-friends-or-tools-open-api-platforms-point-strongly-in-one-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/should-robots-be-friends-or-tools-open-api-platforms-point-strongly-in-one-direction","title":{"rendered":"Should robots be friends or tools? Open-API platforms point strongly in one direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/should-robots-be-friends-or-tools-open-api-platforms-point-strongly-in-one-direction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a reason the only robot a person is likely to have in their home today is a cleaning robot,\u201d founder Shlomo Schwarz tells me during a recent call. \u201cIt gives added value to the person. You buy a cleaning robot because it cleans your house. You\u2019re not buying a friend.\u201d \u2014 when we say value; how do we know for sure. I know many consumers who bought the iRobot vacuums and don\u2019t use them because for many of the women in my own family found it was limited in its usage.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An Israeli startup is modeling its Linux-based, Raspberry Pi-powered robot on the smartphone developer ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/should-robots-be-friends-or-tools-open-api-platforms-point-strongly-in-one-direction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a reason the only robot a person is likely to have in their home today is a cleaning robot,\u201d founder Shlomo Schwarz tells me during a recent call. \u201cIt gives added value to the person. You buy a cleaning robot because it cleans your house. You\u2019re not buying a friend.\u201d \u2014 when we say [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68523,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21901\/revisions\/68523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}