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Consumer and Education: Student Attends School Via Robot | Robotics Trends

What's most remarkable is how unremarkable this technology is viewed by his classmates. In a class of 7-year-olds raised on video games, avatars and remote-controlled toys, they don't see a robot. They just see Devon.
Just before class one recent day, a girl leaned toward the robot to tell Devon the joke making the rounds at school: Why did the boy eat his homework? The teacher told him it was a piece of cake.
While making get-well cards for him during a hospital stay last year, his classmates all drew him as a boy, not a bot.

Maybe it's the New Normal, or will be in another decade...

Or then again...