{"id":4215,"date":"2010-05-18T08:17:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T12:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2010-05-18T08:17:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T12:17:10","slug":"a-real-electric-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4215","title":{"rendered":"A Real Electric Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uguH2dN2uvE&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uguH2dN2uvE&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>An &#8220;I-Fairy&#8221; robot presided at a wedding ceremony in Tokyo last Sunday.  The groom is a professor of robotics and the bride is an employee at Sanrio&#8217;s humanoid robotics division (although a BoingBoing commenter had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/05\/17\/humanoid-robot-offic.html#comment-789733\">more plausible theory<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The little robot&#8217;s normal job is to conduct people around museums, but Sanrio reprogrammed it for the occasion.  It is, according to Sanrio, the world&#8217;s first robot-officiated wedding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An &#8220;I-Fairy&#8221; robot presided at a wedding ceremony in Tokyo last Sunday. The groom is a professor of robotics and the bride is an employee at Sanrio&#8217;s humanoid robotics division (although a BoingBoing commenter had a more plausible theory). The little robot&#8217;s normal job is to conduct people around museums, but Sanrio reprogrammed it for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4218,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions\/4218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}