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.
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S.Korea schools get robot English teachers
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I had a 2 robots teach me...one thaught math the other social studies...lordy, lordy (no batteries needed either).
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Kids will grow up thinking Shakespeare wrote:
"To be,
Or not to be,
That is the Bzzzzzzzzzchktssssssssssss.....!"
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This robotic teachers idea is very sinister, if you see from the article, the face is displayed on a screen, what's stopping advertising companies from running ads on that screen every 5 minutes
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