A curious intervention in the field of tech-aided education has landed on its robotic feet in Chennai. As the long strides of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and assistive technology play with the limits of the man and machine paradigm, Anand P Surana, secretary and correspondent of Surana High Tech International School, Besant Nagar aims to change traditional patterns of education with buddy robots.
Designed for school-going children, the device can do more than just facilitate studying. According to Anand, it can sing, dance, play football with kids, connect pupils to teachers located across the globe, and teach seven foreign languages.
Less than four feet in height, the device rolls seamlessly on the ground. On switching it on, the automaton has an empathetic female voice that greets the viewer with a large pair of smiling and affectionate doe eyes.
