{"id":139434,"date":"2015-09-22T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T08:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=139434"},"modified":"2015-09-22T10:16:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T08:16:12","slug":"robots-to-help-with-trash-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/139434-robots-to-help-with-trash-collection.html","title":{"rendered":"Robots to help with trash collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volvogroup.com\/group\/global\/en-gb\/_layouts\/CWP.Internet.VolvoCom\/NewsItem.aspx?News.ItemId=150979&amp;News.Language=en-gb\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Volvo announced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it is working on a robot that collects your refuse bin and empties it into a garbage\u00a0truck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is done without waking the sleeping families and without heavy lifting for the refuse truck\u2019s driver,\u201d said Volvo.<\/p>\n<p>The project is called ROAR &#8211; Robot-based Autonomous Refuse handling \u2013 where the truck driver will supervise the robots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of ROAR is to demonstrate how we, in the very near future, will use smart machines to assist with a broad range of activities in society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis technology can be applied in many areas. Refuse collection is just one example.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on robots<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/139418-robotic-surgery-combating-impotency-from-prostate-surgery.html\"><strong>Robotic surgery combating impotency from prostate surgery<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/139202-us-marine-corps-tests-robot-dog-soldier.html\">US Marine Corps tests robot dog soldier<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/137070-the-threat-of-robots-taking-your-job-is-overstated.html\">The threat of robots taking your job is overstated<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volvo is working on a robot which can collect bins and empty them into a garbage truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":139436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[36,32996,32998,31950],"class_list":["post-139434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-active","tag-roar","tag-robot-based-autonomous-refuse-handling","tag-volvo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139454,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139434\/revisions\/139454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}