{"id":426,"date":"2012-02-12T21:28:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T21:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brl.ee.washington.edu\/wordpress\/?p=426"},"modified":"2012-02-12T21:28:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T21:28:18","slug":"brl-helps-make-a-wish-to-bring-robots-to-alex-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/2012\/02\/12\/brl-helps-make-a-wish-to-bring-robots-to-alex-penny\/","title":{"rendered":"BRL helps Make-A-Wish to bring robots and humanity together for Alex Penny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAt four years old, Alex Penny was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. Now as an eleven year-old, Alex was given the opportunity to make a wish through the Make-a-Wish Foundation. He immediately asked for world peace before adding that he wanted to help humanity using robots. Alex had a full two days of robotic activities planned for him including a lab tour of the BRL. After the lab tour Alex was the guest of honor at a surprise flash mob that included hundreds of UW students.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UT5yJVISk-o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Additional Coverage: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/home\/video\/Robots-UW-campus-team-up-to-grant-boys-big-wish-139330198.html\"><em>Komo 4 News coverage of Alex&#8217;s day with Robots<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2012\/02\/10\/robot-flash-mob-bots-come-out-to-dance-assist-humanity-on-red-square\/\"><em>UW article on the flashmob at UW for Alex<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/akwa.wish.org\/wishes\/wish-stories\/wish-to-have\/alex-robotics\"><em>Make-a-Wish article<\/em><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At four years old, Alex Penny was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. Now as an eleven year-old, Alex was given the opportunity to make a wish through the Make-a-Wish Foundation. He immediately asked for world peace before adding that he wanted to help humanity using robots. Alex had a full two days of robotic activities planned &#8230; <a title=\"BRL helps Make-A-Wish to bring robots and humanity together for Alex Penny\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/2012\/02\/12\/brl-helps-make-a-wish-to-bring-robots-to-alex-penny\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about BRL helps Make-A-Wish to bring robots and humanity together for Alex Penny\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outreach","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}