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Nanny tech

COMPILED BY NIMI KURIAN

PHOTO: AFP

ENHANCED: Play and watch over children.

PaPeRo is back - with improved hearing ability and enhancements in cognitive ability regarding recognition of handwritten characters and images. With backing from the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization ("NEDO"), NEC has been engaged in the development of a childcare robot as one application of its partner-type robot. It has thus developed "Childcare Robot PaPeRo" that boasts of enhanced security features and functions enabling it to play with and watch over children.

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