Boy With Severe Allergies Sends Robot to School in His Place
Unfortunately, it won't get him out of participating in lessons.
For many of us, a day off from school due to illness wasn't a common occurrence. For students like Devon Carrow-Sperduti, who suffers from life-threatening allergies that prevent him from attending school, it's the norm. However, thanks to technology, Devon doesn't actually have to miss any school. Instead, he attends classes by sending a robotic replacement into the classroom.
File image via VGo The seven-year-old attends classes virtually using the VGo robot, a product of VGo communications that utilizes two-way video and is 100 percent remote controlled. This means Devon can not only see his classmates, but they can see him too, and he can use the VGo to travel from class to class, just like any student would.
The VGo costs around $6000 and uses 10-hour battery. It's controlled from Devon's computer at home. This isn't the first time we've heard of the VGo being used in the classroom, and it likely won't be the last. Sort of brings a new meaning to 'home schooled,' doesn't it?
I would have hated it, of course, since I didn't care for school any more than most kids, but it would have been good for me all the same. I'm glad to see that future children will have this advantage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bIoeBpSeU4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4a_jZoU_C0
I would have hated it, of course, since I didn't care for school any more than most kids, but it would have been good for me all the same. I'm glad to see that future children will have this advantage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bIoeBpSeU4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4a_jZoU_C0
Or would even want to take the opportunity.
On the other hand, during the swine flu panic, two infected classmates dragged themselves to school...
...a week before finals, and they had no concept of sanitation (not covering mouth with arm when coughing/sneezing, never washing hands even after using the toilet, etc). Oh dear lord.
On the other hand, during the swine flu panic, two infected classmates dragged themselves to school...
...a week before finals, and they had no concept of sanitation (not covering mouth with arm when coughing/sneezing, never washing hands even after using the toilet, etc). Oh dear lord.
If kids are infected how are they even allowed into the school? They could spread the sickness to other students
That is also gross, reminds me of the people at my college, I would say like 35% of the people leaving the bathrooms don't wash their hands, and toilets are covered in crap(literally).
Maybe I'm missing something, but couldn't many kids in such a position simply school at home without the robot?
Who will teach them? The parents, the same parents too busy working just to pay basic bills?
Yea great idea, have him have no place to live.
Put something blocking the camera, flip the robot over, spill water on it, put it on top of the school, blast an air horn at the mic, so may ways to cause trouble
In my books, doing something you like can expand creativity, as long as you can cope with the lesson at the same time.