Meet Saya, The “Sensei Roboto”!

Meet Saya, a robot designed to teach children in a japanese school!

Saya is the result of 15 years of research and is being tested as a teacher after working as a receptionist. It is multilingual, can organise set tasks for pupils, call the roll and get angry when the kids misbehave. Saya is just one example of Japan’s determination to put a robot in every home by 2015. Others are already used as traffic wardens.

The robot was originally developed for companies who want to cut costs by replacing office workers a such as secretaries and receptionists with an android that had a range of human expressions. She’s already employed as a receptionist in the foyer of Tokyo University where dressed in a shape-hugging yellow shirt she greats and meets visitors.

Her inventor by Professor Hirohi Kobayashi of Tokyo University has been reported as saying while it isn’t hard to build a robot that looks like a human being, it is much more difficult to create software that mimics the human mind. But he believes that within a few years robots with the physical and mental skills of a two-year old child will be available.

Saya is just one example of Japan’s determination to put a robot in every home by 2015. Others are already used as traffic wardens and one is being made that will be a companion for people afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease.

Source: The Herald Sun Photo:  The Sun via Alafista

In my honest opinion, I prefer a real human teacher until the scientists improve her and break the “Uncanny Valley” , something that could still take several years.

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