Sunday, July 14, 2019

Here's a new one

To me, anyway. Hunter College High School in Manhattan bought 12 RealCare Baby 3 robots. They are used by their 10th grade students, who choose a day to take home one of the 12 after school, then return it the next morning. The robots record whether the students provided a bottle or fresh diaper, hit or shook the baby, neglected it or failed to support its head. The students are graded on this.

The manufacturer, Realityworks, claims that the robots, which start at $749, are used in two-thirds of American school districts. I find this hard to believe, primarily because this is the only school I know of that uses robots.

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