The Korea Advanced Intelligent Robot Association (KAIRA) recently began pilot projects featuring “tutor robots” in some apartment complexes in the Seoul Metropolitan area.

The robots will provide education to elementary schoolers in those regions for three months until this December. Learning English with the robot, children will read English sentences after the robot and get their English pronunciation corrected.

The robot can also read stories to kids and provide various information such as weather data.

After the tests, KATRA plans to introduce “live-in-house tutor” robots between October and December 2006. Future software developments will result in more sophisticated robots that will be able to teach adults.

Via JoongAng Daily.