{"id":7575,"date":"2013-01-03T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7575"},"modified":"2013-01-03T10:41:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T15:41:46","slug":"robot-wars-lawnmower-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/robot-wars-lawnmower-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot Wars: Lawnmower Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/010213_1413_RobotWarsLa1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The robot apocalypse is here, and instead of humans versus machines, it&#8217;s machine versus machine. Ola Kinnander wrote about the battle for the market share of robot lawnmowers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While the rest of Europe&#8217;s economy is stagnating, the robotic lawnmower segment has grown rapidly. Over the next five years it&#8217;s expected to grow 20% a year.<\/li>\n<li>The mowers use sensors to stay within their owner&#8217;s yards and avoid obstacles such as trees. They don&#8217;t collect the cut grass, instead the machines clip them into pieces so small that they can be used as fertilizer.<\/li>\n<li>The mowers aren&#8217;t as popular in the United States in part because American grass is tougher, and thus more difficult to cut.<\/li>\n<li>The robots can cost anywhere between \u20ac1,700 and \u20ac5,000. Human controlled lawnmowers can cost as little as \u20ac300.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the companies fighting for dominance of the market, those that tried building them and failed, and the magical price line that manufacturers should aim for over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-10-22\/robots-replace-gardeners-as-sales-surge-for-auto-mowers.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-10-22\/robots-replace-gardeners-as-sales-surge-for-auto-mowers.html\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/01\/the-ricardo-effect-in-europe-germany-fact-of-the-day.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The robot apocalypse is here, and instead of humans versus machines, it&#8217;s machine versus machine. Ola Kinnander wrote about the battle for the market share of robot lawnmowers: While the rest of Europe&#8217;s economy is stagnating, the robotic lawnmower segment has grown rapidly. Over the next five years it&#8217;s expected to grow 20% a year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/010213_1413_RobotWarsLa1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7588,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575\/revisions\/7588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}