{"id":87256,"date":"2019-01-31T07:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/the-punishing-polar-vortex-is-ideal-for-cassie-the-robot"},"modified":"2019-01-31T07:23:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T15:23:24","slug":"the-punishing-polar-vortex-is-ideal-for-cassie-the-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/the-punishing-polar-vortex-is-ideal-for-cassie-the-robot","title":{"rendered":"The Punishing Polar Vortex Is Ideal for Cassie the Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-punishing-polar-vortex-is-ideal-for-cassie-the-robot.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not a story about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/and-now-the-weather-mars-like-with-a-chance-of-apocalypse\/\">the polar vortex<\/a> is bad\u2014bad for the human body, bad for public transportation, bad for virtually everything in its path. This is a story about how one being among us is actually taking advantage of the historic cold snap: Cassie the bipedal robot. While humans suffer through the chill, this trunkless pair of ostrich-like legs is braving the frozen grounds of the University of Michigan, for the good of science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we saw the announcement for the polar vortex, we started making plans to see how long we could operate in that kind of weather,\u201d says roboticist Jessy Grizzle. \u201cWe were going to tie a scarf on her just so it looked cute, but we decided people would think that was keeping her warm and affecting the experiment, so we didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve read your last complimentary article this month. To read the full article, <a to=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=finalbarrier_text_failsafe\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=finalbarrier_text_failsafe\">SUBSCRIBE NOW<\/a>. If you\u2019re already a subscriber, please <a to=\"\/account\/sign-in\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/account\/sign-in\/\">sign in<\/a> and and verify your subscription.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-punishing-polar-vortex-is-ideal-for-cassie-the-robot\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-punishing-polar-vortex-is-id...the-robot\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a story about how the polar vortex is bad\u2014bad for the human body, bad for public transportation, bad for virtually everything in its path. This is a story about how one being among us is actually taking advantage of the historic cold snap: Cassie the bipedal robot. While humans suffer through the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87256","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}