{"id":1225,"date":"2010-07-10T21:33:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T03:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2010-07-11T17:17:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T23:17:52","slug":"the-robots-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1225","title":{"rendered":"The Robots are coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here on Gratuitous Science, I like to get gratuitous with the science.\u00a0 When I say “The Robots are coming”… does that make you feel like this?<\/p>\n

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\nOr this?<\/p>\n

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\nDoes it conjure up images like this?<\/p>\n

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\nOr this?<\/p>\n

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\nWell, I’m talking right now about this:<\/p>\n

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\nYes, I’m going to finally buy my first robot.\u00a0 I’m disappointed to announce that it won’t look like this:<\/p>\n

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\nBut that kind of robot won’t be in my price range for a long time.\u00a0 Let’s just try something here….<\/p>\n

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\nNope.\u00a0 That doesn’t get me all hot like this does:<\/p>\n

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\nI’m such a weirdo.\u00a0 Good thing I enjoy it.<\/p>\n

So, I actually do need a Roomba.\u00a0 Not just to support the nascent robotics industry, but because I work so much during the week that I never have time or energy to vacuum on the weekends.\u00a0 So I’m going to order one of these, and I’ll rest easy knowing that my guitar picks and fresh cat vomit will be tidily whisked away into the inside of this neat little automatic vacuum cleaner.<\/p>\n

My parents cats and my own cat just LOVE to throw up on the basement carpet.\u00a0 I wonder if I should exclude that area from the Roomba’s domain.\u00a0 Meh.\u00a0 I’ll see about that when I try the thing out.<\/p>\n

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Here on Gratuitous Science, I like to get gratuitous with the science.\u00a0 When I say “The Robots are coming”… does that make you feel like this? Or this? Does it conjure up images like this? Or this? Well, I’m talking right now about this: Yes, I’m going to finally buy my first robot.\u00a0 I’m disappointed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[355],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-roomba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}