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Toddlers and Robots Teach Scientists

by Dan Charles, NPR
November 6, 2007

Scientists deploy a sophisticated robot into a preschool classroom in San Diego. They are trying to see what it would take for toddlers to accept the robot as a social peer.

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  • Morning Edition, November 6, 2007
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