{"id":1377,"date":"2008-02-06T19:03:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T19:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/06\/robot-unemployment-crisis-solv\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T19:03:53","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T19:03:53","slug":"robot-unemployment-crisis-solv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/robot-unemployment-crisis-solv\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot Unemployment Crisis Solved with Make-Work Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robots in the Netherlands who can&#8217;t find jobs elsewhere will be put to work pumping gas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dutch inventors unveiled on Monday a 75,000 euro ($111,100) car-fuelling robot they say is the first of its kind, working by registering the car on arrival at the filling station and matching it to a database of fuel cap designs and fuel types.A robotic arm fitted with multiple sensors extends from a regular gas pump, carefully opens the car&#8217;s flap, unscrews the cap, picks up the fuel nozzle and directs it towards the tank opening, much as a human arm would, and as efficiently.&#8221;I was on a farm and I saw a robotic arm milking a cow. If a robot can do that then why can&#8217;t it fill a car tank, I thought,&#8221; said developer and petrol station operator Nico van Staveren. &#8220;Drivers needn&#8217;t get dirty hands or smell of petrol again.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/technologyNews\/idUSL0448185920080204\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knew there would be such wonderful spin offs from the Cow Milking Program&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots in the Netherlands who can&#8217;t find jobs elsewhere will be put to work pumping gas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[91],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-md","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}