IELTS Reading online sample #10 - IELTS-up

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• Tanaka

• "But by the end they treated the robot as a peer rather than a toy.

• "Our work suggests that touch integrated on the time-scale of a few minutes is a surprisingly effective index of social connectedness,"

• Arkin

• Ronald Arkin,

• preconceived notions of robots, s

• I think this study has clearly reported the possibilities of small, almost autonomous humanoid robots for toddlers. Nowadays robots can perform a variety of functions that were thought to be incident to people only - in short time we’ll have electronic baby-sitters and peer-robots in every kindergarten,

• giggle

• 18- to 24-month-

• Toddlers Bond With Robot

• Children of toddler age were

• giggling noise.

• sit down, or walk in a certain direction

• 45

• The results imply that current robot technology is surprisingly close to achieving autonomous bonding and socialization with human toddlers,"

• Hiroshi Ishiguro

• QRIO

• a new direction -

• - in short time we’ll have electronic baby-sitters and peer-robots in