Autism-"a disorder that affects development of social interaction and communication," affects many children today. Because these children have trouble depicting emotions and social behaviors of humans, scientists have created a robot to help called Kaspar. Surprisingly, Kaspar is helping the autistic children very much. Because the robot has only a few emotions, can talk, and has human like skin the children involved with Kaspar are learning basic communication skills that many of them had non of before the study.
One example is a girl named Eden who suffers from autism. Before she started working with Kaspar, Eden wouldn't hug her family or friends and had trouble depicting emotions of others. Now, because of Kaspar, Eden is openly hugging people, often starting the hug herself. Also, she is better at realizing the emotions of others, helping her social behaviors.
If robots like Kaspar become better engineered, and cheaper, they could help with children all over the world with a hand full of diseases! The advancements made with these autistic children and robots could lead to many more!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110308/ap_on_hi_te/eu_med_autism_robots;_ylt=AsepJzBo6T.PDlbiJbBhNzIjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTJsbGVpMGhuBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTEwMzA4L2V1X21lZF9hdXRpc21fcm9ib3RzBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMwRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNmdWxsbmJzcHN0b3I-
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