{"id":30628,"date":"2016-09-29T19:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T02:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-future-of-robots-singing-lullabies-testing-motorcycles"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:12:34","slug":"the-future-of-robots-singing-lullabies-testing-motorcycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-future-of-robots-singing-lullabies-testing-motorcycles","title":{"rendered":"The future of robots: singing lullabies, testing motorcycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-future-of-robots-singing-lullabies-testing-motorcycles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool new story in the San Francisco Chronicle about the robotics conference. I gave a speech at it yesterday.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>At the two-day RoboBusiness Conference, about 2,000 people were serenaded with lullabies and Disney tunes, including \u201cLet It Go\u201d from the hit film \u201cFrozen,\u201d by a human-like robot designed to comfort senior citizens and autistic children.<\/p>\n<p>And next to a man-size robot that can drive a motorcycle 190 mph around a race track, a half-dozen ant-size robots quickly scurried about a miniature factory floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn five years, could you imagine what this conference is going to look like?\u201d Transhumanist Party presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan asked the crowd. \u201cThere are going to be 8-foot robots walking all around us, talking to us, some of them maybe being smarter than us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 12th annual conference, which wrapped up Thursday, illustrated how the focus of robotics is shifting from industrial uses to consumer products. That\u2019s especially true at a time when drones, self-driving cars and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/business\/article\/Use-of-robot-to-kill-Dallas-gunman-spurs-debate-8349080.php\">police robots that carry bombs<\/a> are making news.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/business\/article\/The-future-of-robots-singing-lullabies-testing-9458916.php\">http:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/business\/article\/The-future-of-ro...458916.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool new story in the San Francisco Chronicle about the robotics conference. I gave a speech at it yesterday. At the two-day RoboBusiness Conference, about 2,000 people were serenaded with lullabies and Disney tunes, including \u201cLet It Go\u201d from the hit film \u201cFrozen,\u201d by a human-like robot designed to comfort senior citizens and autistic children. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1488,5,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-drones","category-geopolitics","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30628","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66123,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30628\/revisions\/66123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}