Students in Japan will be able to send a robot to school in their place when sick

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• A school outside of Tokyo will let sick students send robots to class in their place
  
  
• The robots will be controlled remotely by tablet and deliver a live camera feed
  
  
• Students will also be able to speak through a mic and rotate its head
  A school district in Japan has begun a pilot program that will let sick school children send a robot to the classroom in their place.The program is being conducted at the Tomobe-Higashi special support school in Kasama, a city 60 miles north of Tokyo.The robot model is called Ori Hime, and is developed by Ory Laboratory. "
  
  
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• source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...-sick.html