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[After Gutenberg] As another example under the general aegis of robots helping people, the Machine Perception Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego, has developed a nursery teacher bot. Researchers will evaluate how toddlers respond to their three foot tall, soft, warm and pleasantly plump creation, which is a Sony QRIO robot using Bayesian inference.

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Mindjack - Daily Relay: QRIO (for "Quest for Curiosity") from Sony, and RUBI (for "Robot Using Bayesian Inference"), developed at the Machine Perception Laboratory of UCSD, are there to study the uses of interactive computers for early childhood education. "RUBI is a three foot tall, pleasantly plump robot with a head and two arms. (via Cosmos)

Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends: At the University of California - San Diego (UCSD), two robots are attending nursery school to teach songs, colors and shapes to one- and two-year old children. QRIO (for "Quest for Curiosity") from Sony, and RUBI (for "Robot Using Bayesian Inference"), developed at the Machine Perception Laboratory of UCSD, are there to study the uses of interactive computers for early childhood education. (via Cosmos)

[Portension: Future, Frivolity and Folly] Robot Update: Japanese company Secom has released the "SECOM School Security," a system which monitors kids using RFID tags while they are commuting to and from school but also uses robots (the good old "smoking robots") that move around and monitor school properties. The robots can also "scare" suspicious people by fast movements, light and smoke.

[Roboticnation.blogspot.com] Robotic Nation Evidence: "The new robostix board meets so many of our design goals, and perhaps dreams,” said Professor Richard Vaughan of the Autonomy (Robotics) Lab in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University (SFU) near Vancouver, Canada, “The overall robotics solution from gumstix gives us complete freedom of movement and an efficient design at such a low cost. We will be using the gumstix in our design and testing of forty robots working together”.

[Robots.engadget.com] Wee little Pekee robot - Robots - robots.engadget.com: QRIO and RUBI tag-team it on the kid tip (6/23/2005) .Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry: inappropriate or purely promotional comments .

[Ubergizmo.com] Uber Gizmo, the Gadgets News Blog: 08/29 - 09/04: QRIO will officially start it's new job in September 2004. Well, after all, we have the "Terminator" acting as Governor in California, no?