{"id":156327,"date":"2016-02-24T11:29:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T09:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=156327"},"modified":"2016-02-24T11:31:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T09:31:27","slug":"a-robot-which-wastes-telemarketers-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/156327-a-robot-which-wastes-telemarketers-time.html","title":{"rendered":"A robot which wastes telemarketers time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jollyrogertelephone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Jolly Roger Telephone Company<\/strong><\/a> has designed a robot which will waste telemarketers\u2019 time when they call your number.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Jolly Roger Telephone Co. provides a friendly, agreeable, patient robot that talks to these rude telemarketers for you,\u201d the company explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is happy to chat, and will typically keep an unwary salesperson engaged for several minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man behind the project, Roger Anderson, said telemarketing companies have technology on their side with robotic auto-dialers, robotic soundboards, and an array of other tools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir weak spot is that they need human agents to talk to you when you answer. So the only way to stop this intrusive industry is to waste their precious human resource,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZTi9RdxLp9g\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Examples of the robot talking to telemarketers<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0K4uWEqmJTM\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pTc57dV4Y8Q\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on robots<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/156275-googles-latest-bipedal-robot-is-here-watch-it-in-action.html\">Google\u2019s latest bipedal robot is here \u2013 watch it in action<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/155066-can-you-fall-in-love-with-a-robot-this-valentines-day.html\">Can you fall in love with a robot this Valentine\u2019s Day?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/152009-robot-wars-is-making-a-comeback.html\">Robot Wars is making a comeback<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jolly Roger Telephone Company has designed a robot that talks to telemarketers for you, and keeps the salesperson engaged for minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":156329,"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":[29],"tags":[36,35731,35733],"class_list":["post-156327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-jolly-roger-telephone-co","tag-roger-anderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156327"}],"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=156327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156331,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156327\/revisions\/156331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}