Robovie the talking robot gets schooled by elementary students

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" /><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Talking robot gets schooled by elementary students" data-src-height="362" data-src-width="500" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/robotschooled.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Higashihikari elementary school welcomed a robot through its doors this week. A new model Robovie will join the Japanese school's students for classes over 14 months, aiming to <strike>gain sentience</strike> strike up interactions with multiple people -- and learn from it. The Robovie's conversation level is apparently equal to a five-year-old child, although it's been augmented with all the know-how of a fifth-grade science textbook and preloaded with 119 facial photos and voiceprints of teachers and students. It's the first long-term project for the International Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute's 1.2-meter bot, with the scientists reckoning that the school environment should offer its robot major input.</div></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AbkbU32X5dI?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe></div>

Robovie the talking robot gets schooled by elementary students

Higashihikari elementary school welcomed a robot through its doors this week. A new model Robovie will join the Japanese school's studen...

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