Costa Cruises<\/a> will begin placing \u201cemotional robots\u201d on its ships after New Year\u2019s, starting with the Diadema<\/a> and the AIDAprima<\/a>, a Costa brand. The robot\u2019s name is Pepper and he, Pepper is apparently the world\u2019s first robot capable of recognizing major human emotions and responding accurately in real time. So we are officially in the \u201ctalk with a robot\u201d age.<\/p>\n The people who will be most nervous about hearing this news?<\/p>\n Walmart<\/a> greeters.<\/p>\n 21st century X-rays<\/b><\/p>\n A few years ago, we met a scientist who was commissioned to dissect the brain of a fruit fly, so we know that with fruit flies anything is possible.<\/p>\n Even X-rays.<\/p>\n That\u2019s what is happening at four New Zealand cruise ports. A mobile X-ray machine is Areas near Auckland<\/a> have been under strict restrictions to prevent the Australian pest from disembarking. To that end, the \u201cbiosecurity\u201d machines will X-ray the bags of 260,000 or so cruise passengers next year to make certain there is no fruit inside that could be carrying the fruit fly to shore. Presumably, passengers will be warned about putting apples and oranges in their pockets and purses before leaving the ship.<\/p>\n The object is to make New Zealand \u201cfruit fly free.\u201d<\/p>\n In the news…<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Empress of the Seas returning to Royal Caribbean after 8-year absence Today at\u00a0<\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em>Oceania kicks off Wave Season<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Signs of the cruise apocalypse\u2026or just interesting anecdotes about cruising: The r2d2 effect In case you thought you would only see this on the big screens playing the record-breaking latest Star Wars: The Force Awakens, guess again. If next year you\u2019re on a Costa ship, as we were fortunate to be this year, there\u2019s a… Continue reading Cruising Robots And Fruit Flies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,15],"tags":[1851,1355,137,1005,1213,912,72,819,35,2169,373,26,27,33,1955,1175],"class_list":["post-26558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-stories","tag-aidaprima","tag-australia-cruising","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-costa-cruises","tag-costa-diadema","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-fruit-flies","tag-new-zealand","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-star-wars","tag-vision-of-the-seas","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Diadema\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Diadema.jpg\")
<\/a>she or it will greet passengers as they board and help them find their way to restaurants and entertainment.<\/p>\n![\"X-raymachine\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/X-raymachine.jpg\")
<\/a>being installed to keep destructive pests from infesting the country\u2026not rats or bats or snakes, but the dreaded Queensland fruit fly.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0Costa back in Port Everglades for winter season with the Deliziosa
\n\u2022 New 62-passenger Crystal Esprit christened in the Seychelles<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
\nVision of the Seas
\n<\/a>7 nights
\nApril 9, 2016
\nTampa<\/a> (return): Roatan<\/a>, Belize<\/a>, Costa Maya<\/a>, Cozumel
\n<\/a>Inside: $560
\nCost per day: $80<\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"