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[After Gutenberg] As another example under the general aegis of robots helping people, the Machine Perception Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego, has developed a nursery teacher bot. Researchers will evaluate how toddlers respond to their three foot tall, soft, warm and pleasantly plump creation, which is a Sony QRIO robot using Bayesian inference.

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