{"id":71184,"date":"2017-07-22T00:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T07:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/spacex-has-a-roomba-robot-but-no-one-knows-what-it-really-is"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:00:23","slug":"spacex-has-a-roomba-robot-but-no-one-knows-what-it-really-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/spacex-has-a-roomba-robot-but-no-one-knows-what-it-really-is","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX has a \u2018Roomba\u2019 robot but no one knows what it really is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-has-a-roomba-robot-but-no-one-knows-what-it-really-is.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX fans are extremely curious about a new robot that keeps appearing on SpaceX\u2019s drone ship \u201cOf Course I Still Love You.\u201d Some are calling it the \u201cRoomba\u201d robot while others insist it should be called \u201cOptimus Prime.\u201d There are theories as to what this robot is for, but there\u2019s no confirmation from SpaceX itself, yet.<\/p>\n<p>We reached out to SpaceX for more details about this mysterious robot, but it was unable to give us any information. However, we can tell you that SpaceX only refers to the machine as a robot and does not assign it any other name (like Roomba or Optimus Prime).<\/p>\n<p>For this video, we connected with some of SpaceX\u2019s fans. Photos shown in the video were taken by Julia Bergeron (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/julia_bergeron\">@julia_bergeron<\/a>) and David Akin, University of Maryland.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/spacex-roomba-robot-optimus-prime-2017-7\">https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/spacex-roomba-robot-optimus-prime-2017&#45;7<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX fans are extremely curious about a new robot that keeps appearing on SpaceX\u2019s drone ship \u201cOf Course I Still Love You.\u201d Some are calling it the \u201cRoomba\u201d robot while others insist it should be called \u201cOptimus Prime.\u201d There are theories as to what this robot is for, but there\u2019s no confirmation from SpaceX itself, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71184","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71261,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71184\/revisions\/71261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}