{"id":558,"date":"2021-03-10T06:59:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T06:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2021-03-09T05:32:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T05:32:09","slug":"need-for-worker-safety-and-automation-drive-positive-outlook-for-robots-says-boston-dynamics-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Need For Worker Safety and Automation Drive Positive Outlook for Robots, Says Boston Dynamics VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workplace safety has come a long way since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but factory floors can still be dangerous places. Working alongside powerful machines presents all kinds of hazardous scenarios. Working with machines, performing repetitive tasks, can also cause injury. Robots can help in both areas, Michael Perry, vice president of business development at Boston Dynamics told <em>IndustryWeek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect to see increasing adoption of robotics, fueled by a growing need to remove people from hazardous work and automating the tasks that are impossible to automate with traditional tools, robots, or drones,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As an illustrative case, Boston Dynamic\u2019s new mobile robot, Spot, recently inspected Chernobyl\u2019s nuclear waste site, measuring radiation levels and creating 3D radiation heat maps.<\/p>\n<p>For more from Perry on robots in logistics and in a post-pandemic world, read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.industryweek.com\/technology-and-iiot\/article\/21152034\/robots-ready-to-grow-in-2021\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workplace safety has come a long way since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but factory floors can still be dangerous places. Working alongside powerful machines presents all kinds of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}