{"id":28311,"date":"2016-07-26T18:49:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T01:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/a-robotic-dinner-plate-with-a-human-like-arm-is-revolutionizing-the-lives-of-the-differently-abled"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:03:48","slug":"a-robotic-dinner-plate-with-a-human-like-arm-is-revolutionizing-the-lives-of-the-differently-abled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/a-robotic-dinner-plate-with-a-human-like-arm-is-revolutionizing-the-lives-of-the-differently-abled","title":{"rendered":"A robotic dinner plate with a human-like arm is revolutionizing the lives of the differently abled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-robotic-dinner-plate-with-a-human-like-arm-is-revolutionizing-the-lives-of-the-differently-abled.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Golf, offshore powerboat racing, sky diving: David Hare had led an active lifestyle. Then, in February 2011, he was diagnosed with ALS, a neurological disease that leads to rapid progressive degeneration of nerve cells, the loss of the ability to control muscle movement, and eventually death. The 56-year-old Michigan resident, who was told by doctors that he had less than five years to live, found a new lease of life last year with Obi, a robot that helps the differently abled feed themselves.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/738863\/meet-obi-the-robot-thats-giving-people-with-als-independence\/\">http:\/\/qz.com\/738863\/meet-obi-the-robot-thats-giving-people-...ependence\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golf, offshore powerboat racing, sky diving: David Hare had led an active lifestyle. Then, in February 2011, he was diagnosed with ALS, a neurological disease that leads to rapid progressive degeneration of nerve cells, the loss of the ability to control muscle movement, and eventually death. The 56-year-old Michigan resident, who was told by doctors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28311","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61040,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28311\/revisions\/61040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}