Here Comes the iPal

The world is becoming increasingly less human and if we look at our human interactions, even they seem to take place via an electronic medium such as the iphone. Now the electronic and robotic industry has taken this one step further by getting in place the iPal. This is a baby sitting robot that the Chinese have come up with.

Brought out at the Consumer Electronics Show Asia, in Shanghai, it is a robot that can speak in two languages, tell jokes to it’s audience, and also give math lessons to the children. It’s being touted as the next best thing for lonely children to interact with when their parents are unavailable. The interaction takes place through a tablet sized screen that is built into the chest of the robot.

The robot is about as tall as a 5 year old kid and moves about on a set of wheels. Once the children are fed into it’s memory bank, the robot keeps track of it’s charges using facial recognition technology. Yes, this glorified science project can even link up the parents phone to the tablet screen and allow them to keep virtual tab on them. Want one? You have a bit of a wait and price of about $1,400 to go.