Almost 30 robots have started teaching english to youngsters in a south korean city education officials said tuesday in a pilot project designed to nurture the nascent robot industry
Engkey, a white, egg-shaped robot developed by the korea institute of science of technology (kist) began taking classes monday at 21 elementary schools in the southeastern city of baegu the 29 robots about 3 1/3 feet high with a tv display panel for face wheeled around the classroom while speaking to the students reading books to them and dancing to music by moving their head and arms