{"id":96985,"date":"2019-10-03T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/would-a-robot-pet-enhance-your-life"},"modified":"2019-10-03T09:03:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:03:46","slug":"would-a-robot-pet-enhance-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/would-a-robot-pet-enhance-your-life","title":{"rendered":"Would a robot pet enhance your life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/would-a-robot-pet-enhance-your-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>We all know that dogs are a man\u2019s best friend, but has the world really come to this?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On a particularly blustery day in New York City, I found myself (as one with the income bracket of a writer sporadically does) on the Upper East Side, amidst tribes of cooler-than-thou high school students, dedicated dog walkers and women wearing hats that looked like a Shar-Pei had potentially suffered in the making of it.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, I braved the chilly air and found solace in the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the design institution that is part of the Smithsonian. Upon entering, visitors are greeted with a magic wand-looking pen tool, that serves as an interactive notekeeper for items you are interested in. \u201cHow innovative.\u201d Perfect for a museum about innovation, am I right? With my magic wand in hand, I entered the Narnia of objects, with the first stop being an exhibition titled \u201cAccess and Ability.\u201d Featuring \u201cartifacts\u201d designed for people with disabilities, I was surprised to find among the various innovations, a very cute-looking puppy that I instinctively wanted to pet. But I did not, for fear of being arrested, a la Ocean\u2019s 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that dogs are a man\u2019s best friend, but has the world really come to this? On a particularly blustery day in New York City, I found myself (as one with the income bracket of a writer sporadically does) on the Upper East Side, amidst tribes of cooler-than-thou high school students, dedicated dog [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96985","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=96985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}