At the kindergarten in China, 'robot teacher' who educates by touching with children has been introduced

A small robot " Keeko " which has a display that can reproduce pretty looks and expressions and supports education by giving quizzes to kids who go to kindergarten has been introduced in Chinese kindergartens.

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Keeko introduced in Chinese kindergarten is such a robot. With a small robot about 60 cm tall, you can run by yourself, but your arms are not attached. In the face part there is a display that expresses emotion according to the behavior of children.

Keeko can read stories to children and can do quizzes that let you answer with logical problems. When a good answer is returned from children, like this, expressing joy by heart-shaped eyes, we are motivating children.

Candy Xiong, a teacher who works as a trainer at Keeko Robot Xiamen Technology, said, "Modern education is no longer a one-way story that teachers teach and students learn," and what the robot mechanically tells children Instead of teaching, I am talking about the era in which education can be done interactively.

Keeko has already been introduced in more than 600 kindergartens in China, and he is planning to advance into Southeast Asia region and so on. In China, the first humanoid robot that can memorize simple conversation and expression in 2017 was announced, funds and personnel for developing artificial intelligence were invested as part of China's "Made in China 2025" plan The situation is born.

According to the International Federation of Robots, China is the world's top industrial robot, and around 340,000 robots in factories throughout China are engaged in the manufacturing and automotive industries I will. In addition, the service robot market including equipment from special medical equipment to cleaning robot vacuum cleaner is estimated to be 1.32 billion dollars (about 147 billion yen) in 2017.

In China where the robot's social advancement is remarkable, it is said that a robot that supports reading sutra in the temple and supporting to reach Nirvana (Nejan) is also introduced. On the other hand, there are still people thinking that robots still take time to replace human beings, and Xie Yi, who is the director of the kindergarten where Keeko is introduced, said, "In order to teach something We need to be interactive, we need human-to-human contact, eye contact, facial expressions etc. These elements form an education. "