{"id":9559,"date":"2013-12-22T17:01:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T01:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9559"},"modified":"2013-12-26T14:10:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T22:10:34","slug":"japanese-team-dominates-competition-to-create-generation-of-rescue-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/japanese-team-dominates-competition-to-create-generation-of-rescue-robots","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Generation of Rescue Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"byline\">By <span itemid=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/m\/john_markoff\/index.html\" itemprop=\"author creator\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"> <a title=\"More Articles by JOHN MARKOFF\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/m\/john_markoff\/index.html\" rel=\"author\"><span itemprop=\"name\">JOHN MARKOFF<\/span><\/a> \u2014 The New York Times<\/span><\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Generation of Rescue Robots\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Oi3_zlVMK0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>HOMESTEAD, Fla. \u2014 An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory of a pioneer in the design of intelligent humanoid machines.<\/p>\n<p>The early roboticist, <a title=\"industry bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ieeeghn.org\/wiki\/index.php\/Hirochika_Inoue\">Hirochika Inoue<\/a>, began working in the field almost a half-century ago at the University of Tokyo, and in the mid-1990s led the design of robots that could both walk and manipulate objects.<\/p>\n<p>Students from the lab where Dr. Inoue did his early work, who then studied under <a title=\"bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/%C3%9Cinaba\/\">Masayuki Inaba<\/a>, a roboticist who was one of Dr. Inoue\u2019s pupils, emerged as the clear leaders at the Pentagon\u2019s <a title=\"darpa site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/\">Darpa Robotics Challenge<\/a> 2013 Trials on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/23\/science\/japanese-team-dominates-competition-to-create-rescue-robots.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN MARKOFF \u2014 The New York Times HOMESTEAD, Fla. \u2014 An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory of a pioneer in the design of intelligent humanoid machines. The early roboticist, Hirochika Inoue, began [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9559","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\/9559","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}