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"I, Robot" meets the federal deficit

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Fox News: Feds spending $10 million to build robot companions for childrenhttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...llion-to-build-robot-companions-for-children/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...llion-to-build-robot-companions-for-children/

The National Science Foundation has committed $10 million to build robots that will act as “personal trainers” for children, in an effort to influence their behavior and eating habits.

The government has spent $2.15 million so far for the five-year project, which is being led by Yale University. The project, “Robots Helping Kids,” will ultimately “deploy” robots into homes and schools to teach English as a second language, and encourage kids to exercise.

The project will develop a “new breed of sophisticated ‘socially assistive’ robots,” designed to help children “learn to read, appreciate physical fitness, overcome cognitive disabilities, and perform physical exercises,” according to a news release by Yale University when the grant was first announced in 2012.
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Gee, what could possibly go wrong with that plan??

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Not to mention: $10 million??? To develop a"new breed of sophisticated 'socially assistive robots"???

All to teach kids ESL, learn to read and stay fit and cognitively sharp? So ... what are they going to pay teachers and coaches to do? Service the robots?

Is the National Science Foundation really that out of ideas for things to do?

Hey! While they're at it, maybe they can build me a coffee pot that will not only make the coffee in the morning but come get me out of bed when I don't want to get up!
 
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Revmitchell

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General Mung Beans said:
I don't see anything about parents not being involved.
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Parents do not need help in raising their kids. The govnerment does not need robots to influence kids to do anything.


Extremist liberals are more and more trying to bypass parents. This is another issue that if pushed too far has the potential to create a civil war.
 
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exscentric

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Unfortunately parents are allowing this to happen, they allow the school to feed their kids, sit their kids after school. They allow outside organizations to supply packs full of supplies. Why aren't parents feeding/supplying their kids anymore?

Momma government sees a coming need and is trying to fill it.
 
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General Mung Beans

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exscentric said:
Unfortunately parents are allowing this to happen, they allow the school to feed their kids, sit their kids after school. They allow outside organizations to supply packs full of supplies. Why aren't parents feeding/supplying their kids anymore?

Momma government sees a coming need and is trying to fill it.
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To answer your question, many of these children would have been missing meals or not carrying around supplies in past times.
 
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exscentric

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Then the "many" if really that many could be helped but the rest should be taken care of by the parents.
 
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church mouse guy

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Revmitchell said:
Parents do not need help in raising their kids. The govnerment does not need robots to influence kids to do anything.


Extremist liberals are more and more trying to bypass parents. This is another issue that if pushed too far has the potential to create a civil war.
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That one awful woman on MSNBC Mellissa Harris-Perry wants children taken away from their parents--of course, that happened in Australia to Aborigines as dramatized in the movie Rabbit-Proof Fence. I find myself wondering if she would do it to her own race and I conclude that she would.
 
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exscentric

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General Mung Beans said:
That's why school lunches aren't free for everyone nor are school supply packs given to every student.
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Reduced cost actually for those that pay. Last I heard the summer meals are free.

Last couple years teachers take all children supplies, dump it all together so those no one has any supplies - they all use out of the social barrel - those that don't have take from those that do.
 
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Last couple years teachers take all children supplies, dump it all together so those no one has any supplies - they all use out of the social barrel - those that don't have take from those that do.
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That's never happened in my experience and I've been going to school in recent years.
 
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Revmitchell

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exscentric said:
Reduced cost actually for those that pay. Last I heard the summer meals are free.

Last couple years teachers take all children supplies, dump it all together so those no one has any supplies - they all use out of the social barrel - those that don't have take from those that do.
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Yep it happens in all the schools here in NM. They do it in Florida as well.
 
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