{"id":33730,"date":"2013-05-13T21:50:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T03:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/do-the-robot.html"},"modified":"2013-05-14T09:33:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T15:33:39","slug":"do-the-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/do-the-robot.html","title":{"rendered":"Do the Robot!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nice article (with some great sound\/video clips). But no mention of Robbie? \u00a0Or (just) The Robot? \u00a0Oh, the pain!<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

For extra nerd points, what's the connection between Rossum's Universal Robots and Batman?\u00a0http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/media\/2013\/05\/robots-modern-unimate-watson-roomba-timeline<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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A Brief History of Awesome Robots<\/a>
\n From futuristic cities to a 1980s Chinese restaurant, a peek back at the real and fictional robot icons of the last century.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nice article (with some great sound\/video clips). But no mention of Robbie? \u00a0Or (just) The Robot? \u00a0Oh, the pain! Reshared post from +George Wiman For extra nerd points, what's the connection between Rossum's Universal Robots and Batman?\u00a0http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/media\/2013\/05\/robots-modern-unimate-watson-roomba-timeline A Brief History of Awesome Robots From futuristic cities to a 1980s Chinese restaurant, a peek back at … Continue reading “Do the Robot!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,20,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-hi-tech","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32797,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/09\/robot-combat-league-neither-rocksem-nor-socksem.html","url_meta":{"origin":33730,"position":0},"title":""Robot Combat League" neither rocks'em nor socks'em","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 9-Mar-13 2:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, it sounded pretty cool. 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