{"id":1953,"date":"2016-03-17T10:51:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T01:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2016-03-17T10:51:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T01:21:29","slug":"rise-of-the-robo-tsar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/2016\/03\/17\/rise-of-the-robo-tsar\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise of the Robo Tsar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: 16px\/22.85px 'Open Sans', sans-serif;margin: 0px 0px 10px;color: #333333;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;background-color: #ffffff\">When Rod Brooks headed to the US\u00a0after graduating from Flinders in 1977, there were just three mobile robots in existence.<span id=\"more-236\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 16px\/22.85px 'Open Sans', sans-serif;margin: 0px 0px 10px;color: #333333;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;background-color: #ffffff\">Now, the iRobot company he founded has on its own produced more than 14 million \u2013 ranging from household robot vacuums to military robots tooled to detect and disarm roadside bombs. When Japan\u2019s Fukushima nuclear plant failed catastrophically after the tsunami of 2011, it was Dr Brooks\u2019 cyber progeny that were sent into the plant on mission after mission, equipped with Geiger counters to search for areas of danger \u2013 doing work too dangerous for people. <a href=\"http:\/\/50.flinders.edu.au\/rise-of-the-robo-tsar\/\">Full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Rod Brooks headed to the US\u00a0after graduating from Flinders in 1977, there were just three mobile robots in existence. Now, the iRobot company he founded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-profiles"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}