Thursday, March 5, 2009

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Com-tutorised ... Saya during pilot run at a primary school

Com-tutorised ... Saya during pilot run at a primary school

PUPILS are getting a unique lesson — from the world’s first ROBOT teacher.
The humanoid named Saya is multilingual, can do roll calls and set tasks from text books.
Wired ... original Pikarin

Wired ... original Pikarin

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Behind her latex face — modelled on a university student — 18 motors create expressions including happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, sadness and even anger.

Saya will start teaching after passing a trial term at a Tokyo primary.

Her creator, science professor Hiroshi Kobayashi, had been working on the robot for 15 years.

The original, named Pikarin, had a metal head with exposed wires and levers.

ROBOTS could replace real army medics in ten years, developers in California revealed yesterday.

g.oshea@the-sun.co.uk

thesun.co.uk



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