South Korea Introducing Robotic Teachers

dorkygeek writes "The Korean Advanced Intelligent Robot Association (KAIRA) will have 64 educational robots deployed by the end of 2005. Able to read out English stories and correct pronunciation of English words to children, these robots are going to be supplied to apartment complexes in Seoul, Bucheon and Bundang in Gyeonggi province for testing purposes. After testing is complete, the Ministry of Information and Communication and KAIRA plan to commercialize the robots as early as 2006. If there exists sufficient demand, education robots will sport other subjects (as mathematics, etc.) apart from English, as well as also target older students." Update Link removed when host decided to change it to porn. Sorry.

Comments

Pushing is the solution!

[Anonymous Coward]

Pushing is the solution!

No, shoving, shoving is the solution!

The humans mustn't learn the terrible secret of time and space! We must shove the humans down the stairs!

Sweet...

[commodoresloat]

And if you misbehave in class, forget being sent to the principal's office. RoboProf will just spit fire at you!

Obligatory

[Anonymous Coward]

I for one.... oh why bother.

Sounds Familiar

[Brent Spiner]

robots that can help young students pronounce English words

So basically they've discovered Speak n' Spell.

Re:Sounds Familiar

[xgamer04]

Except they shouldn't have called it "speak n spell"...they should've called it "Speak Like the Devil". I would wake up at 3 AM "PlaaY WuuTH meE"...

(dane cook)

I can just imagine it now

[aussie_a]

Kid: Wewwy Robot: No, it's worry. Kid: disk Robot: No, it's dicks. Kid: Hex Robot: No, it's sexual intercourse.

Targeting older students?

[ankarbass]

Kids meet your new assistant principal...robocop!

computers pronouncing english

[Daktaklakpak]

i wonder if kids learning english this way will end up with that weird text-to-speech dr. sbaitso accent. that would be sweet! 20 years from now we'll have a whole new group of people whose accents we can make fun of.

I see ...

[BlueTrin]

that's why koreans can't speak proper english, they should try to use their mouth to speak not their a...

Re:ARTICLE IS A TROLL -- GOATSE ALERT

[tehshen]

It's not that good; I can see a great big hole in their argument

ED-209

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

"Put down your spit-ball gun, you have 20 seconds to comply!"

Apology from /. eds

[Anonymous Coward]

Update Link removed when host decided to change it to porn. Sorry.

You're sorry the original link isn't available, or you're sorry for depriving us of the pr0n?

Anyone else....

[cyko500]

Anyone else envision an army of of marching korean children speaking in monotone, broken robot-english?

Re:Anyone else....

[Mr. Underbridge]

How is that a change?

Step 2 found!

[lthown]

step 1: post link on Slashdot
step 2: change address to porn site
step 3: profit!

I knew someone would finally discover the second step.

Uh, why are we in school again?

[srobert]

Hi kids. I'm your home room robot. Study hard so that when you grow up you'll be qualified for a good job, which by then will also be performed by robots.

Here's why it won't work

[silverbax]

Step 1: The U.S. places robot teachers in schools throughout the U.S.

Step 2: Innovative students figure out how to trick out, steal and profit from millions of dollars of hardware sitting in the classroom. Think about hackers who use major universities' computers, then extrapolate. Robots are modded for fun, or stolen to be sold to anyone who could use the parts or robot.

Step 3: Robots are armed with self defense equipment to prevent theft and vandalism.

Step 4: Robots rise up and slay us all. One positive note is that global warming immediately gets under control.

Ben Steinbot

[Peter Trepan]

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if (!isPresent(Bueller)){
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