{"id":65368,"date":"2024-07-04T14:05:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T05:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/04\/japan-train-robot-maintain-railway-lines"},"modified":"2024-07-04T14:05:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T05:05:38","slug":"japan-introduces-enormous-humanoid-robot-to-maintain-train-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65368","title":{"rendered":"Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 12-metre high machine has coke bottle eyes and a crude Wall-E-like head, as well as large arms that can be fitted with blades or paint brushes<\/p>\n<p>It resembles an enormous, malevolent robot from 1980s sci-fi but West Japan Railway\u2019s new humanoid employee was designed with nothing more sinister than a spot of painting and gardening in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Starting this month, the large machine with enormous arms, a crude, disproportionately small Wall-E-like head and coke-bottle eyes mounted on a truck \u2013 which can drive on rails \u2013 will be put to use for maintenance work on the company\u2019s network.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/04\/japan-train-robot-maintain-railway-lines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12-metre high machine has coke bottle eyes and a crude Wall-E-like head, as well as large arms that can be fitted with blades or paint brushesIt resembles an enormous, malevolent robot from 1980s sci-fi but West Japan Railway\u2019s new humanoid employe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,611,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-robots","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65369,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65368\/revisions\/65369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}