{"id":8878,"date":"2006-04-14T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T16:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8878"},"modified":"2006-04-14T16:15:42","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T16:15:42","slug":"is-hello-kitty-the-next-threat-to-american-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8878","title":{"rendered":"Is Hello Kitty the Next Threat to American Jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/helloKittyRobot.jpg\">Oh, I just can&#8217;t wait for the day when American politicians start making robots a straw man issue in an election season. If Hello Kitty has her way, she&#8217;ll be one of the robots taking over our jobs, at least she will be if Japan&#8217;s Business Design Laboratory has anything to do with it. They&#8217;ve built a <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/business2\/business2_archive\/2006\/04\/01\/8372813\/index.htm?cnn=yes\" target=\"new\">Hello Kitty robot<\/a> office receptionist that a partner company (called Robot Dispatch) is now renting out to businesses. The 20&#8243; bot can recognize faces, ask visitors for their names, and hook them up with the right person in the office. It also has 20,000 stored &#8220;conversational patterns,&#8221; songs, and riddles. <\/p>\n<p> I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;d be a little spooked if I walked into the office of a reputable company and there was a giant plastic doll on the desk asking me to identify myself and posing me riddles while I waited for my appointment. But as the article points out, a robot might at least be more entertaining than many office receptionists.<\/p>\n<p> <i>Thanks, Jay!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I just can&#8217;t wait for the day when American politicians start making robots a straw man issue in an election season. If Hello Kitty has her way, she&#8217;ll be one of the robots taking over our jobs, at least she will be if Japan&#8217;s Business Design Laboratory has anything to do with it. They&#8217;ve &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8878\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Hello Kitty the Next Threat to American Jobs?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}