A robot teacher was recently unveiled in Japan. It's freaking me out.
The dead-eyed android supposedly delivers a lecture and can show six emotions, "surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness and sadness." No word on how the bloody thing can stop the kids from just walking out of the classroom or setting the trash can on fire.
Haven't the Japanese seen sci-fi movies? Don't they know that robots can turn on you and take over. Come on Japan, get Netflix or something.
Additionally, if you are going to have an audio-animatronic teacher, couldn't it look like the Captain that auctions off the redhead in Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland? "We wants the redhead ... and multiplication tables!" At least a singing bear that can lead the young'uns in some sort of jamboree. Let's rethink this, Japanese scientists.
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The "uncanny valley" at work. She looks too real so our brains pick out what's "wrong" with the robot instead of all the things that are correct. Hence the whole heebie jeebie thing.
"At least a singing bear that can lead the young'uns in some sort of jamboree. Let's rethink this, Japanese scientists."
Johnny, are you sure you want to encourage them to go down the path of non-human models? I'd like to maybe have kids some day, and I'd prefer they not learn their ABCs from a giant vagina with tentacles...
There may need to be some kind of regulation.
I see Micheal Jackson's finally been spotted in Japan.