{"id":5620,"date":"2021-03-11T13:54:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T20:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=5620"},"modified":"2021-03-11T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T20:55:12","slug":"companion-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/03\/11\/companion-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Companion Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If there were companion robots that can live with us at home to do chores, guard the house, teach, play with children, and give us health advice, would you consider getting one? These social companion robots or humanoids can exist in different forms and shapes and the technology is advancing quickly. Here is a video of Jimmy Fallon singing a duet with a companion robot, Sophia. The part that I found a bit &#8220;freaky&#8221; was the expressions and facial movements of Sophia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sophia the Robot and Jimmy Sing a\u00a0Duet of\u00a0&quot;Say\u00a0Something&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G-zyTlZQYpE?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will be covering this topic more in detail for my A3 and I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts on companion robots!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there were companion robots that can live with us at home to do chores, guard the house, teach, play with children, and give us&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/03\/11\/companion-robots\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Companion Robots<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":83143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobileculture","category-mobiletechnologies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5622,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions\/5622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}