Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot

[Francis Hult]

New York Times

 

Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot

 

In a handful of laboratories around the world, computer scientists are developing robots like this one: highly programmed machines that can engage people and teach them simple skills, including household tasks, vocabulary or, as in the case of the boy, playing, elementary imitation and taking turns. 

 

So far, the teaching has been very basic, delivered mostly in experimental settings, and the robots are still works in progress, a hackers' gallery of moving parts that, like mechanical savants, each do some things well at the expense of others. 

 

Full story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/science/11robots.html

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