{"id":293,"date":"2007-05-08T22:33:40","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T03:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robocup.bowdoin.edu\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2007-05-08T22:33:40","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T03:33:40","slug":"robocup-on-the-daily-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/asides\/robocup-on-the-daily-show\/","title":{"rendered":"RoboCup on The Daily Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bunch of people have told me that on The Daily Show last night &#8212; RoboCup was mentioned.  Specifically: robot dogs playing soccer.  That&#8217;s unbelieveably awesome.  The guest on the show was Lee Gutkind, a CMU professor promoting his new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Almost-Human-Making-Robots-Think\/dp\/0393058670\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/103-9413598-9751804?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1178681626&amp;sr=8-1\">Almost Human: Making Robots Think<\/a>.  And Lee did a great job hyping up our league and robotics in general.  After hearing John Stewart say the words &#8216;robotic dogs playing soccer&#8217;, I know we&#8217;ve won.  John Stewart will be the face of the robot revolution.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/motherload\/player.jhtml?ml_video=86498&amp;ml_collection=&amp;ml_gateway=&amp;ml_gateway_id=&amp;ml_comedian=&amp;ml_runtime=&amp;ml_context=show&amp;ml_origin_url=%2Fshows%2Fthe_daily_show%2Fvideos%2Fmost_recent%2Findex.jhtml&amp;ml_playlist=&amp;lnk=&amp;is_large=true\"><br \/>\nLink to Interview Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bunch of people have told me that on The Daily Show last night &#8212; RoboCup was mentioned. Specifically: robot dogs playing soccer. That&#8217;s unbelieveably awesome. The guest on the show was Lee Gutkind, a CMU professor promoting his new book Almost Human: Making Robots Think. And Lee did a great job hyping up our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}