You will tell me that you already know that today is April Fools' Day and that this title does not slip, and we continue with the news that seems more a joke than something serious. But again we are faced with a real, unusual but real fact. Is about Yotaro, a baby robot designed to help first-time parents do their practices and get the parent card ...
The University of Tsukuba, in Japan, has developed this robot designed to teach first-time parents the basic care that should be provided to their future babies.
The angelic babies that we can see at the beginning of the video are not the robot. Yotaro is the illuminated balloon that looks like an overweight gooseberry and that appears next, in a cradle. But what is really this thing?
Yotaro is composed of a central computer, sensors that detect the movements made by people around them, a curved surface that serves as a face, speakers, a water tank (to shed tears, drool, mucus and pis?), a small motor and articulated limbs. The truth is that it is a little scary ...
So that parents know how to react to certain situations, the robot can show different expressions: smile, cry, close your eyes while you sleep, simulate that you have a cold (well yes, let loose snot), react to the pampering that is spoken to you, complain when something does not like ... Anyway, I can only say, ¡what a waste of money and hours of research!
Do not miss the moment in which they raise the blankets to see if the little one hurts the little boy ... go scare to discover those members articulated below!
Despite the relaxing music we can hear in the video, the baby robot Yotaro It does not convey any relaxation, rather restlessness and rejection. What kind of practices as parents can we do with this invention? But rest assured, that your son will not be like a robot, nor will he have on and off nor behavior patterns, nor volume nor, say thanks, that light that comes out of his head.
