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May 6, 2005
Sony's Qrio robot attending nursery school in California
(Papero Child Care Robot)
TOKYO — Qrio, a humanoid robot developed by a Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratories Inc has been attending a nursery school in California since March to play with children up to 2 years of age in an experiment to help develop a robot that can "live in harmony with humans in the future."
Qrio spends time each day with more than 10 toddlers at the nursery school located in San Diego. Qrio is always accompanied by a researcher, who is in charge of making sure everything goes smoothly. While the children were at first apprehensive about Qrio, they now dance with it and help it get up when it falls. "The children think of Qrio as a feeble younger brother," researcher Fumihide Tanaka said. (Kyodo News)
Japan Today, Sony's Qrio robot attending nursery school in California, Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 07:15 JST, http://japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=4&id=335992
Posted by sjc at May 6, 2005 1:30 PM
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