{"id":3902,"date":"2005-12-13T17:10:31","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T17:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2005-12-13T17:10:31","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T17:10:31","slug":"robots-ready-to-rule-humansgets-job-as-receptionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/robots-ready-to-rule-humansgets-job-as-receptionist\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots ready to rule humans&#8230;gets job as receptionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blocked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"robotjobtheft.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/robotjobtheft.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" align=\"left\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8456\" class=\"external external_icon\">The world&#8217;s first walking humanoid robot is set to make its office debut in 2006 as a receptionist, Honda announced on Tuesday. The latest version of Honda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Asimo robot will be starting its new job in April at a Honda office <\/a>in Wako in Saitama prefecture north of Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The prototype, unveiled in Tokyo, can guide guests to a meeting room, serve coffee on a tray and push a cart with a load of up to 10 kilograms, says Honda.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The level of Asimo&#8217;s capability was just good enough to entertain people on the stage in the past, but the new Asimo can work at places closer to us,&#8221; says Satoshi Shigemi, the Honda official in charge of the robot&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new Asimo can perform the task of a receptionist or information guide automatically,&#8221; Shigemi told a news conference. &#8220;Honda is aiming to create a humanoid robot that can help people and live together with people.&#8221; <\/p><\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8456\" class=\"external external_icon\">new scientist<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s first walking humanoid robot is set to make its office debut in 2006 as a receptionist, Honda announced on Tuesday. The latest version of Honda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Asimo robot will be starting its new job in April at a Honda office in Wako in Saitama prefecture north of Tokyo. The prototype, unveiled in Tokyo, can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-only-in-japan","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}