Professor Hiroshi Kobayashi of the Tokyo University has created a humanoid robot which is capable of teaching students while also expressing a range of emotions.
She is named Saya and has been designed to look like as human a form as possible. Saya has 18 facial motors or say programmed movements which give her the ability to imitate some human emotions while speaking multiple languages. (Multi-tasking). She is able to express basic emotions like surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness and sadness.
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Saya is capable of teaching Science and Technology and can be remotely controlled. She can do roll call and as well set tasks from textbooks.
She has also taken a class in a Tokyo school. She taught a science lesson to class of 10 year olds at Kudan Elementary School. And she proved a hit on her first day. Yay!
Saya has already worked as Receptionist and Secretary and the plan to program her further to personify as a school teacher already begun 5 years back.
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Creating such humanoid robot teachers will definitely benefit Japanese schools where there is shortage of human teachers, says her father – Prof. Kobayashi.
That made-to-order robot will cost about 5 million Yen, he said.
See her video.
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