{"id":3167,"date":"2018-10-12T04:13:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T04:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/take-me-to-your-leader-mps-to-quiz-robot\/"},"modified":"2018-10-12T04:13:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T04:13:26","slug":"take-me-to-your-leader-mps-to-quiz-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/take-me-to-your-leader-mps-to-quiz-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Take me to your leader! MPs to quiz robot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Pepper the robot\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/143B6\/production\/_103807828_pepper.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Softbank Robotics<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A robot is to be questioned by a panel of MPs in what they are claiming is a first for UK democracy (regular viewers of Parliament may beg to differ).<\/p>\n<p>Pepper &#8211; &#8220;a culturally aware&#8221; robot &#8211; was designed to assist with the care of older people.<\/p>\n<p>But next Tuesday she will be assisting members of the education select committee understand the impact of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will also quiz human experts during the session.<\/p>\n<p>Pepper &#8211; who is part of an international research project funded by the EU and the Japanese government &#8211; is likely to be the star turn.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will hear about her work with students at Middlesex University, including a project involving teaching primary school children.<\/p>\n<p>After a demonstration by Pepper, the MPs will look at how robots can be used to support learning and how robotics will transform the workplace and classroom of the future.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-45824589\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Softbank Robotics A robot is to be questioned by a panel of MPs in what they are claiming is a first for UK democracy (regular viewers of Parliament may beg to differ). Pepper &#8211; &#8220;a culturally aware&#8221; robot &#8211; was designed to assist with the care of older people. But next Tuesday she &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}