Some scientists try to create a robot RUBI, a robot created specifically to be a teacher. At the time of testing, this project can teach your children well. Unfortunately, the lack of emotional relationships like “teacher man”.
RUBI is an acronym for Robot Using Bayesian Inference. This robot-making project called ‘The Machine Perception Laboratory’ which is realized by a team from the University of California, San Diego, United States.
Along with Sony’s QRIO robot, RUBI was also created within the framework of long-term research to explore the use of interactive computers in educational environments, in real time and social robotics.
Robot with three feets tall, soft-textured skin and a little fat is very pleasant to be embraced by children. Unfortunately, he can not repay their embrace.
However, RUBI is able to show facial expressions to draw children’s attention. Not only that, in the chest there are small screens that can be used by children to play games when they are saturated.
Apparently the researchers accidentally created a robot teacher educators to evaluate how children react to a robot. In addition, they also want to find out a good teaching method for children.
In addition to creating a robot that is able to simplify household chores, many robots are now beginning to be created to provide science. Quoted from New Soxy, Monday (12/07/2010), In the future, there is a plan to create a robot that is more interactive than existing robots.
| Title | : | RUBI the Robot Tutor |
| Category | : | Robotics News. |
| Tags | : | Bayesian Inference, educational robot, robot tutor, robotics for kids, RUBI robot, |
The word robotics was derived from the word robot, which was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Liar!", published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction. Asimov was unaware that he was coining the term; since the science and technology of electrical devices is electronics, he assumed robotics already referred to the science and technology of robots. In some of Asimov's other works, he states that the first use of the word robotics was in his short story Runaround (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942). However, the word robotics appears in "Liar!"
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