{"id":97192,"date":"2019-10-08T09:02:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T16:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/new-drone-and-droid-tech-inches-us-closer-to-riding-with-an-all-ai-entourage"},"modified":"2019-10-08T09:02:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T16:02:31","slug":"new-drone-and-droid-tech-inches-us-closer-to-riding-with-an-all-ai-entourage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/new-drone-and-droid-tech-inches-us-closer-to-riding-with-an-all-ai-entourage","title":{"rendered":"New drone and droid tech inches us closer to riding with an all-AI entourage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/imt2qZ7uw1s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With a self-guiding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/tags\/drones\">drone<\/a> hovering over your shoulder, a not-too-humanoid robot sidekick as your wingman, and a four-legged fetch \u2018bot trotting along beside, the day when you can surround yourself with a whole gaggle of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/faa-predicts-commercial-drone-use-to-triple\">AI-powered helpers<\/a> is already here \u2026 even if it\u2019s still the wee hours of the early morning.<\/p>\n<p>Whether by air, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/california-cities-greet-delivery-robots\">on wheels<\/a>, or even on padded little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/boston-dynamics-robodogs-bring-us-one-step-closer-to-black-mirror\">robot paws<\/a>, the technology that drives our mechanized helpers is reaching that autonomous point at which the droids are able to think for themselves as they carry out their limited missions. Sure, they\u2019re not quite ready to cross platforms and begin communicating with one another just yet, but at least they all can communicate with you \u2014 which pretty much makes you the star character in your budding little electronic entourage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a self-guiding drone hovering over your shoulder, a not-too-humanoid robot sidekick as your wingman, and a four-legged fetch \u2018bot trotting along beside, the day when you can surround yourself with a whole gaggle of AI-powered helpers is already here \u2026 even if it\u2019s still the wee hours of the early morning. Whether by air, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97192","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=97192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}