{"id":73577,"date":"2017-10-29T10:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T17:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/amazon-is-quietly-building-the-robots-of-sci-fi-piece"},"modified":"2017-10-29T10:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T17:42:34","slug":"amazon-is-quietly-building-the-robots-of-sci-fi-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/amazon-is-quietly-building-the-robots-of-sci-fi-piece","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Is Quietly Building the Robots of Sci-Fi\u2014Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-is-quietly-building-the-robots-of-sci-fi-piece.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Science fiction is the siren song of hard science. How many innocent young students have been lured into complex, abstract science, technology, engineering, or mathematics because of a reckless and irresponsible exposure to Arthur Clarke at a tender age? Yet Arthur Clarke has a very famous quote: \u201cAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the prospect of making that\u2026 ahem\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/04\/magic-leap-vr\/\">magic leap<\/a> that entices so many people into STEM in the first place. A magic leap that would change the world. How about, for example, having humanoid robots? They could match us in dexterity and speed, perceive the world around them as we do, and be programmed to do, well, more or less anything we can do.<\/p>\n<p>Such a technology would change the world forever.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/10\/29\/amazon-is-quietly-building-the-robots-of-sci-fi-piece-by-practical-piece\/\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/10\/29\/amazon-is-quietly-buil...cal-piece\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction is the siren song of hard science. How many innocent young students have been lured into complex, abstract science, technology, engineering, or mathematics because of a reckless and irresponsible exposure to Arthur Clarke at a tender age? Yet Arthur Clarke has a very famous quote: \u201cAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73577","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=73577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}