In these days of anti-social behaviour orders and a perceived lack of parental control, another worry has been added to the list of concerns. A robotics professor has warned that a new breed of childcare robots being developed in Japan and tested in American schools could lead to a "generation of social misfits".
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Keeping it in the family 3 July 2008
In these days of anti-social behaviour orders and a perceived lack of parental control, another worry has been added to the list of concerns. A robotics professor has warned that a new breed of childcare robots being developed in Japan and tested in American schools could lead to a "generation of social misfits".
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