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PositionNEWS & TRENDS - Saya robot teacher - Brief article

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Saya is a remote-controlled humanoid robot teacher recently tested in a Tokyo classroom. She takes attendance, shouts "be quiet," and can display anger, surprise, fear, disgust, happiness, and sadness. With its aging population and workforce-almost a quarter of Japanese are over 65-Japan is investing heavily in robots. Laboratories around the world are also working to develop robots that can teach simple...

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