PUPILS are getting a unique lesson — from the world’s first
ROBOT teacher. The humanoid named Saya is multilingual, can do
roll calls and set tasks from text books. See more pics of the
amazing robot below Behind her latex face — modelled on a
university student — 18 motors create expressions including
happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, sadness and even anger. Saya
will start teaching after passing a trial term at a Tokyo
primary. Her creator, science professor Hiroshi Kobayashi, had
been working on the robot for 15 years. The original, named
Pikarin, had a metal head with exposed wires and levers. ROBOTS
could replace real army medics in ten years, developers in
California revealed yesterday.