{"id":32706,"date":"2019-07-02T15:58:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=32706"},"modified":"2019-07-02T15:58:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:58:44","slug":"lifeline-01-07-2019-conor-mcginn-robotics-designer-inventor-and-assistant-professor-at-the-school-of-engineering-tcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=32706","title":{"rendered":"Lifeline 01 &#8211; 07 &#8211; 2019  Conor McGinn, Robotics Designer Inventor and Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering, TCD."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lakshmy is joined by Conor McGinn, Robotics Designer Inventor and Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering, TCD. 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Conor talks about his invention of the artificially intelligent but humanised robot called Stevie who promises to fight loneliness and socially assist people by offering care and security.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8152\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/NEARFM_20190702_LL_002.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('8152','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/NEARFM_20190702_LL_002.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/NEARFM_20190702_LL_002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=32706-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/NEARFM_20190702_LL_002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"NEARFM_20190702_LL_002.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 21:41 &#8212; 29.8MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":28549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[14960,7625,1865,14959,10181],"class_list":["post-32706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifeline-2","tag-conor-mcginn","tag-lakshmy","tag-lifeline","tag-robotics","tag-tcd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32708,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32706\/revisions\/32708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}