Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Mind reading robot teachers

An automated system that detects when online students are distracted in class...
That's pretty interesting. This started at the university of Wisconsin-Madison, when two people wanted to find out wheter a robot could use techniques"real" teachers use to keep students alert.

A quote from the article:
"What do human teachers do and how can we draw on that to build an educational robot that achieves something similar?"

In the end, the robot was programmed and tested...Did it work?
Check the article to find out!

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A video on a real robot teacher

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