Another robot telepresence R.BOT was set in a school, this time in the city of Ivanovo. The robot provides remote presence in the classroom for children who can not attend school. This is especially important for children with disabilities. The robot can also connect children in the hospital, the students in home schooling, as well as parents.

Photo: Photographer KuzenkovRobots help sick kids to keep up with the classNow robots will go to class, sit in the classroom and even answer the board. In the new school year in six schools will Vasilievsky Island real robots. They will learn to help those guys who can not physically attend classes.   Machines are called "Avatar" because of the function of telepresence, as described in the eponymous film by James Cameron. By the way, long before "Avatar" in 2005, Japan made a film "Hinoki," about a boy with a disability, who, through the robot attended school. But the official name - R.bot in honor of the company-developer.   Externally R.bot like...

August 24. Interfax-Russia.ru - Ivanovo Regional Center for Distance Education of disabled children became Russia's first interactive mobile robot (avatar) R.BOT100, "Interfax" on Friday, the center's director, Elena Sherudillo.   "The presentation features the robot" boy "was held at the Regional Conference of the teachers on Thursday, participants at an improvised competition gave him the name of Rurik", - she said.   According to the director of the center, R.BOT $ 145 thousand purchased at the expense of oblbyudzheta, by 10 September center buys robot "girl", a name that will give the children themselves.   "Robots will be used in the learning process every day: one will be in a class of basic school (one -...

The program tells about the possible prospects for the development of robotics and its application in the modern world. As one of the most successful areas - System Remote Presence (telepresence), allowing a person to control his distance, "Text." An example of such devices are robots R.BOT - about them, too, will be discussed in this transfer. Источник: http://russia2.tv/video/show/brand_id/10967/video_id/136406

His "brain" - a processor of 1.6 Ggerts, his "nervous system» - Linux, instead of "heart" in it - a lead-acid battery. Time goes by very quickly. Even as a child we read about robots in science fiction books, but barely had time to mature and the robots have already appeared in schools, hospitals and streets. When James Cameron released a few years ago on the screens of "Avatar", the flying blue men fiction were already only partially. The idea of ??telepresence - when a person is in one place, and a certain device performs its functions in another, dates back to 1985. Marvin Lee Minsky, co-founder of Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pointed out three main areas...

 Who: Savings, "Ingria" What: Robots that are able to communicate. Savings shown green robot (though with Sberbank was all green, including almond cakes and mojito), who reported that he - an interactive map of the stand. And also know how to say "take a picture with me," "I think" and "I'm not ashamed." His name Tikhon. The robot from "Ingria" was talkative, but found it difficult to respond to questions about emotions. The girls asked him: "Are you in love?" - A robot came to a light stupor and began to ask "what is love." This went on for as long as someone did not think to ask about the president. Without hesitation, the robot said, "the president of Russia -...

  The robot goes to school instead of a boy who is undergoing treatment for serious illness. Such devices may allow not only to communicate virtually with other students, but also to visit the exhibition, visit the cinema or theater.   During the break, this sleek unit is a one-eyed fun rolls out into the corridor, without causing the boys and girls is not the slightest surprise. Indeed, since September last year, the robot Tap Dance - normal sixth grader 166th Moscow school. And it runs right out of her apartment 12-year-old Stepan Sopin, who still remain among his friends do not allow doctors.   Like any student, in class today English...

 TV Channel "5 badge," said in his report on how passed, "St. Petersburg International Economic Forum - 2012", and took a short interview with the robot R.BOT 100.

 Do not expect to see a student in the classroom. However, this learning is not an android himself. It serves as the eyes and ears for a Russian student who health problems do not allow to attend school. Because heart disease Evgeny Demidov has to stay home, but with the help of an android, says the boy, now he always knows what's going on in the school № 166. Evgeny Demidov, a student of the Moscow school № 166: I talk, move around the school, walking through the corridors, in general, nothing has changed. The only difference is that I'm sitting at home, and they are - at school.   Of...

  Ian - the only student who is allowed to stand during class, ride on a class for a long time to think or say computer language, "hang." And sometimes even shut down. Beyond the small screen lost the connection to the Internet. Start the lesson second-form boy Ian Dem'yanovich missed. This is rare but still happens. Virtual training has been going on for six weeks. In winter, the boy was walking with his grandmother, slipped and fell awkwardly. Broke three thoracic vertebrae. Now the kid in the class looks, listens and speaks - the robot. Olga Zhdanov, a teacher of history and culture of St. Petersburg High School № 642...