Are human teachers going to be obsolete?
SEOUL (AFP) – Almost 30 robots have started teaching English to youngsters in a South Korean city, education officials said Tuesday, in a pilot project designed to nurture the nascent robot industry.
Engkey, a white, egg-shaped robot developed by the Korea Institute of Science of Technology (KIST), began taking classes Monday at 21 elementary schools in the southeastern city of Daegu.
The 29 robots, about one metre (3.3 feet) high with a TV display panel for a face, wheeled around the classroom while speaking to the students, reading books to them and dancing to music by moving their head and arms.
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Will they be a threat?
Solves lots' of problems. One being; as a teacher do you stand at the back of the class but then you can't write on the blackboard or do you stand at the front but with your back to the kids.
That can't be solved by a long chalk;-)
yea probably in the near future...by implementing e-learning system...even classrooms are no more required..