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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRobotics makes baby steps toward solving Japan’s child care shortage
Child care is a hard job, but somebody, or something, has got to do it.
Japanese researchers have developed androids to meet that need, which includes happily reading that fairy tale again and again and again.
The androids, which were created by a team of education and robotics specialists at a research facility in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture, are part of a larger system called RoHo Care. Short for Robotic Hoikujo (day care center), RoHo is being touted as a high-tech solution to the staffing crisis that forced the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry to announce emergency measures this week.
I never thought Id see this day, but were now confident that RoHo could blaze a trail for child care worldwide, said team leader Makoto Hara.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/national/social-issues/robotics-makes-baby-steps-toward-solving-japans-child-care-shortage/
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Robotics makes baby steps toward solving Japan’s child care shortage (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Mar 2016
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NV Whino
(20,886 posts)1. I wonder if I could find one to give my cat his insulin shots?
Have to be armor plated, though.
yuiyoshida
(41,759 posts)2. I just love that BABY SITTING DRONE...
how wild is that?
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)3. I can see some weird repercussions coming out of this
Still, I like the idea.