On robots replacing kids at school 🤖🎒📚

Let's be honest, getting up early to go to school wasn't exactly your favorite thing to do. I mean, yes, you could enjoy school most of the time, but come on, having a robot at school while you are sitting comfortably at home is every child's dream! Especially when you haven't done your homework, heh.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, a school in Kumamoto, Japan, is about to let some students attend classes through "telepresence" robots because the school district has had a serious attendance issue lately, and they are kind of desperate to help them come back.

Yes, I know it sounds like too much? Like, couldn't they just let the students join via a video call? Yes, they could and they did, and they did manage to get many students back because those online classrooms helped reduce their anxiety and improved their self-esteem. But still, 2,760 students in Kumamoto are skipping physical lessons.

So, aren't robots a better way to transition into their physical presence again? Let's step into those kids' shoes: they spend some of the most crucial years of their physical and mental growth at home during a pandemic that revolutionized the way we interact with the environment and with tech, making their generation more anxious about the future and growing up with technology as the main way to interact with their families and friends. Considering we are talking about Japanese kids, whose tech culture is way more advanced than most of the planet's, then it kind of makes sense that those kids don't feel the need to go back to school when remote works just fine.