Robot pals and AI tools: What’s ahead for tech in the classroom?
It’s hard not to smile back at Buddy.
He’s sitting on the convention floor at CES, the large technology conference formerly known as the Consumer Electronic Show, in Las Vegas. His white body rotates and his head swivels, but it’s his emotive face that melts hearts. The robot smiles, frowns, blinks, and even tears up – digitally, of course.
His Paris-based creator, Blue Frog Robotics, bills him as an “emotional companion” that can solve problems faced by education systems.
For example, Buddy sits on desks and becomes a homebound or hospitalized child’s avatar, providing the classroom experience in a more natural way.
