{"id":7607,"date":"2016-07-16T22:36:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T05:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7607"},"modified":"2016-07-21T22:40:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T05:40:06","slug":"death-of-the-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/16\/death-of-the-cowboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of The Cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/robots\/a21839\/swagbot-robot-cowboy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Popular Mechanics<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Meet SwagBot: The Four-Wheeled Robot Cowboy<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a class=\"link link-txt byline--author-name\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/author\/15822\/david-grossman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">David Grossman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZVUYJhXXzo\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SwagBot is the world&#8217;s first robot cowboy, built to roam the rugged Australian terrain.<\/p>\n<p>While it will be doing some cowboy work, make no mistake: SwagBot is less like John Wayne and maybe a little more like a hyper-competent herding dog. It can corral cows and pull trailers, doing the type of work seen in the early parts of\u00a0<em data-verified=\"redactor\" data-redactor-tag=\"em\">Brokeback Mountain<\/em>. It can go through swamps, up hills, and over rocks. It&#8217;s not the first robot to hit the farms of the Australian outback, which are vast, remote and often difficult to access.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/robots\/a21839\/swagbot-robot-cowboy\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Popular Mechanics<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Popular Mechanics Meet SwagBot: The Four-Wheeled Robot Cowboy By\u00a0David Grossman SwagBot is the world&#8217;s first robot cowboy, built to roam the rugged Australian terrain. While it will be doing some cowboy work, make no mistake: SwagBot is less like John Wayne and maybe a little more like a hyper-competent herding dog. It can corral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}