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Science of learning to reinvent teaching techniques — including robot teachers and tutors

By Frank Tobe | July 29, 2009

Two articles in July’s ‘Science’ journal discuss need for reinventing teaching techniques: Foundations for a New Science of Learning by Meltzoff and Dyslexia: A New Synergy Between Education and Cognitive Neuroscience by Gabrieli.

Japan’s ATR has a new P-PIP to research projects to study robots that work (1) in a classroom environment to help people’s learning, and (2) in a home and shopping mall environment to help elderly people’s daily activity. The P-PIP is actually hiring multi-disciplinary researchers today.

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Frank Tobe

Frank Tobe is the founder of The Robot Report and co-founder of ROBO Global which has developed a tracking index for the robotics industry, the ROBO Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. The index of ~90 companies in 13 sub-sectors tracks and captures the entire economic value of this global opportunity in robotics, automation and enabling technologies.