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Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot
Video still from a demonstration where the robot Simon evaluates objects and categorizes them.
Georgia Tech
The boy, a dark-haired 6-year-old, is playing with a new companion.
The two hit it off quickly—unusual for the 6-year-old, who has autism—and the boy is imitating his playmate’s every move, now nodding his head, now raising his arms.
“Like Simon Says,” says the autistic boy’s mother, seated next to him on the floor.
Yet soon he begins to withdraw; in a video of the session, he covers his ears and slumps against the wall.
But the companion, a three-foot-tall robot being tested at the University of Southern California, maintains eye contact and performs another move, raising one arm up high.
Up goes the boy’s arm—and now he is smiling at the machine.
From The New York Times
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