06.09.2009 8:00 am
Robot teacher debuts in Japan
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
More robot news from Japan: Students in one Tokyo school are being taught by a robot named — no, not Ms. Roboto — Saya.
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
She — or i t — is multilingual, can organize set tasks for pupils, call the roll and get angry when the kids misbehave. In fact, she can express six basic human emotions: surprise, fear, disgust, anger, sadness and happiness.
The humanoid is the result of 15 years of research by science professor Hiroshi Kobayashi at the University of Tokyo. Kobayashi originally developed Saya to replace office workers�
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