{"id":30936,"date":"2016-10-10T23:48:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T06:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/why-softbank-just-led-a-130-million-mega-round-into-zymergens-microbe-creating-robots"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:10:18","slug":"why-softbank-just-led-a-130-million-mega-round-into-zymergens-microbe-creating-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/why-softbank-just-led-a-130-million-mega-round-into-zymergens-microbe-creating-robots","title":{"rendered":"Why SoftBank Just Led A $130 Million Mega Round Into Zymergen\u2019s Microbe-Creating Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-softbank-just-led-a-130-million-mega-round-into-zymergens-microbe-creating-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SoftBank is pouring a massive $130 million funding round into the science fiction-invoking robots at Zymergen, which creates new microbes for corporations and government agencies.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alexkonrad\/2016\/10\/11\/softbank-leads-130-million-series-b-for-zymergen-robots\/\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alexkonrad\/2016\/10\/11\/softbank-l...en-robots\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank is pouring a massive $130 million funding round into the science fiction-invoking robots at Zymergen, which creates new microbes for corporations and government agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30936","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66039,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30936\/revisions\/66039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}