{"id":33670,"date":"2017-01-20T23:05:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T07:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/introducing-the-european-bots-landscape"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:58:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:58:29","slug":"introducing-the-european-bots-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/introducing-the-european-bots-landscape","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the European Bots Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/introducing-the-european-bots-landscape.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past half year, <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/01\/18\/4-big-problems-plaguing-chatbots\/\" target=\"_blank\">bots<\/a> have been a widely discussed topic. Experts and the media heavily discussed all the possible benefits, the future, and the value bots could create for businesses and consumers. Arguably, the tipping point was <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/facebook\/2016\/04\/14\/everything-facebook-announced-f8-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u2019s F8 conference<\/a> in April. Since then, many developers and consumers have massively experimented with bots and tested their limits to find the most suitable use cases for bots.<\/p>\n<p>During this trend, the U.S. market has proven to be highly interested in bots. Several published surveys are showing strong U.S. bot companies, as you can see in <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/08\/11\/introducing-the-bots-landscape-170-companies-4-billion-in-funding-thousands-of-bots\/\">VentureBeat\u2019s Bots Landscape<\/a>. But Europe is not far behind.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/01\/20\/introducing-the-european-bots-landscape\/\">http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/01\/20\/introducing-the-european-bots-landscape\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past half year, bots have been a widely discussed topic. Experts and the media heavily discussed all the possible benefits, the future, and the value bots could create for businesses and consumers. Arguably, the tipping point was Facebook\u2019s F8 conference in April. Since then, many developers and consumers have massively experimented with bots [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33670","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=33670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49283,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33670\/revisions\/49283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}