{"id":2884,"date":"2010-01-18T13:14:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T11:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2884"},"modified":"2010-05-31T23:44:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T21:44:32","slug":"i-want-a-back-rubbing-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/2884","title":{"rendered":"I Want A Back-Rubbing Robot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/robotarm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline;\" title=\"robotarm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/robotarm_thumb1.jpg\" alt=\"robotarm\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My husband came home last night after a weekend away with his Lego \/ Robot buddies.\u00a0 They were working on\u2026 god I\u2019m not even going to try to explain it, it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/mightor.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/07\/current-project-giant-robot-arm\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>, and they did <a href=\"http:\/\/mightor.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/17\/its-alive-its-alive\/\" target=\"_blank\">get it working<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I love that my husband has a hobby that he\u2019s so interested in and gets so much enjoyment out of.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even mind that he leaves me sometimes for days on end while he and the boys are off sorting things out and creating their latest and greatest robotics project.<\/p>\n<p>There is one thing I\u2019d like to know though\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Where\u2019s the love for the wives and girlfriends?!\u00a0 HUH?? WHERE\u2019S OUR ROBOTS?!\u00a0 I think it\u2019s time us Lego Widows stood up in protest!<\/p>\n<p>If they can spend countless hours making robots to drive little cars, pick up boxes and all the other cool things they do, can they not throw a robot or two our way once in a while?\u00a0 Let\u2019s take the recent robot arm for example\u2026\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it could be adapted in various ways to help us out as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adding an extra hand and a little tweaking, and they\u2019d hear the last of our pleas for back scratches and back rubs.\u00a0 Giving it the ability to hold <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolostore.com\/images\/medium\/kk_headm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">one of these<\/a> would add a great head massager to the mix as well.\u00a0 Our men would be totally off the hook!<\/li>\n<li>Giving the robot arm the ability to hold a wooden spoon and move in a more circular motion would give us a fantastic stirrer for in the kitchen. Imagine how much sooner dinner would be ready if we had a robot to stir food while we prepared other portions of the meal!<\/li>\n<li>A Fetch-Bot!\u00a0 I know it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4PcL6-mjRNk\" target=\"_blank\">can be done<\/a>, so why do Pixel and Bailey not have their own fetch bot?\u00a0 They are good little dogs, they deserve one!<\/li>\n<li>I think if I had a robot to water my plants, I\u2019d not kill them nearly as easily!\u00a0 Granted, it would require me remembering to fill a reservoir BUT if we could somehow connect it to our dehumidifier, I wouldn\u2019t have to do anything.\u00a0 Think of the plants people, it\u2019s like plantocide in here!<\/li>\n<li>Two words.\u00a0 Window cleaning.\u00a0 One long arm, a cloth and it\u2019s a done deal!<\/li>\n<li>Can robots detect dust?\u00a0 I mean, if they can and if they can clean windows, they can dust.\u00a0 Just sayin\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Reaching robots.\u00a0 Who is going to get the stuff from the top shelf when they are away?\u00a0 Reaching robots, that\u2019s who!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s not like I\u2019m asking for a robotic sex toy or anything.\u00a0 We all know they would never make us one of those because they know they\u2019d just be making themselves obsolete\u2026 but is the rest too much to ask?\u00a0 We support their hobby, we make sure they have clean clothes to crawl around the floor in and food in their bellies.\u00a0 Don\u2019t we deserve a little robot love too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband came home last night after a weekend away with his Lego \/ Robot buddies.\u00a0 They were working on\u2026 god I\u2019m not even going to try to explain it, it\u2019s this, and they did get it working. I love that my husband has a hobby that he\u2019s so interested in and gets so much &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[367,366,52],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-randoms","tag-lego","tag-robots","tag-xander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5172,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions\/5172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}