Now this one

certainly must have sprung from the minds of not-Moms (or possibly, moms who are *really* comfortable with technology). To wit (photo credit Crave):

….Major Japanese retailer Aeon Co. said Tuesday it has introduced a 1.4-metre (four-foot-seven) yellow-and-white robot at a store in the southern city of Fukuoka in charge of entertaining the children.

If parents want to leave their children with the kid-sized machine, they arrange for the youngsters to wear special badges that bear codes which the robot can read.

The robot can then identify the children by their names and ages and chat with them, even though its vocabulary remains limited.

The robot, developed with leading robot-maker Tmusk, can also use a projector in one of its eyes to beam advertising messages — or to show pictures that it has captured with a camera installed in the other eye. …MORE….

Johnny Sokko is probably laughing hysterically at this one…..

Robotics and kids, however, can be quite a lucrative career field for our young’uns. Here are some great resources for that:

• Science, robots and robotics
• Lego Mindstorms for Kids
• Lessons & Ideas for K’nex, Legos, Lego Mindstorms, & Capsela

Hope you find this, ahem, useful! I’m waiting for the babysitting robot that teaches karate….

ThankYouVeryMuch!

Owlbert
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ps - and speaking about Legos Mindstorms:

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