{"id":71322,"date":"2017-07-27T19:02:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T02:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/robot-flying-taxi-takes-its-first-autonomous-flight"},"modified":"2017-07-27T19:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T02:02:37","slug":"robot-flying-taxi-takes-its-first-autonomous-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/robot-flying-taxi-takes-its-first-autonomous-flight","title":{"rendered":"Robot flying taxi takes its first autonomous flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robot-flying-taxi-takes-its-first-autonomous-flight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Formerly known as the \u201cAir Mule,\u201d this is a flying taxi, or maybe a future unmanned ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>Urban Aeronautics<\/p>\n<p>Nine years ago, the Air Mule was an almost-believable concept: a flying robot taxi that could get people out of dangerous battlefields without endangering a pilot or crew. It was the exact sort of gizmo one expects from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/archive-viewer?id=o1xI5xKNBxgC&pg=72&query=%22hopping%20out%20of%20hot%20zones%22\">Popular Science<\/a><\/em>: an amazing machine of the future, almost like a flying car, that seemed plausible but just out of reach.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/robot-flying-taxi-cormorant-takes-its-first-autonomous-flight?con=TrueAnthem&dom=fb&src=SOC&utm_campaign&utm_content=5979c1d800bd470007450615&utm_medium&utm_source\">http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/robot-flying-taxi-cormorant-takes-its-...utm_source<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formerly known as the \u201cAir Mule,\u201d this is a flying taxi, or maybe a future unmanned ambulance. Urban Aeronautics Nine years ago, the Air Mule was an almost-believable concept: a flying robot taxi that could get people out of dangerous battlefields without endangering a pilot or crew. It was the exact sort of gizmo one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71322","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=71322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}