{"id":97815,"date":"2019-10-25T04:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T11:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/automated-gardener-ushers-in-new-era-of-robotony"},"modified":"2019-10-25T04:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T11:42:37","slug":"automated-gardener-ushers-in-new-era-of-robotony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/automated-gardener-ushers-in-new-era-of-robotony","title":{"rendered":"Automated gardener ushers in new era of \u2018robotony\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/automated-gardener-ushers-in-new-era-of-robotony.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With its whirring rotary blades and extendable cutting arm it would not look out of place stalking the streets of a futuristic urban dystopia.<\/p>\n<p>But Edinburgh University\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/08\/28\/robot-fettuccini-like-fingers-built-harvard-catch-jellyfish\/\">robot<\/a> has actually been developed to pootle sedately around the garden, pruning rose bushes and trimming topiary.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-autonomous machine \u2014 dubbed Trimbot \u2014 is programmed to recognise leaves, stalks and flowers, so it does not inadvertently dead-head the living blooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its whirring rotary blades and extendable cutting arm it would not look out of place stalking the streets of a futuristic urban dystopia. But Edinburgh University\u2019s new robot has actually been developed to pootle sedately around the garden, pruning rose bushes and trimming topiary. The semi-autonomous machine \u2014 dubbed Trimbot \u2014 is programmed to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97815","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=97815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}