Education Law

Robots as instructors?

TechNewsDaily reports on new research suggesting that robots could someday assist in classroom instruction. The article focusing on toddlers notes:

A robot named RUBI has already shown that it can significantly improve how well infants learn words, and the latest version of the bot under development should also be able to wheel around classrooms, too.

The idea to develop RUBI came to Javier Movellan, director of the Machine Perception Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego, when he was in Japan for research involving robots and his kids were in a child care center.

BoardBuzz finds it interesting that robot instructors in the future may improve the student learning experience.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on February 23, 2011 (boomark / email).