{"id":39235,"date":"2021-11-25T14:10:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T05:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/25\/south-korea-trials-robots-in-preschools-to-prepare-children-for-high-tech-future"},"modified":"2021-11-25T14:10:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T05:10:03","slug":"south-korea-trials-robots-in-preschools-to-prepare-children-for-high-tech-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39235","title":{"rendered":"South Korea trials robots in preschools to prepare children for high-tech future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 25cm-tall robots that sing, dance and do kung-fu used as teaching aids in 300 childcare centres across Seoul<\/p>\n<p>Seoul has started trialling pint-sized robots as teaching aids in kindergartens \u2013 a pilot project the city government said would help prepare the next generation for a hi-tech future.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cAlpha Mini\u201d is just 24.5 centimetres tall and can dance, lead sing-a-longs, recite stories and even teach kung fu moves as children mimic its push-ups and one-legged balances.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/25\/south-korea-trials-robots-in-preschools-to-prepare-children-for-high-tech-future\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 25cm-tall robots that sing, dance and do kung-fu used as teaching aids in 300 childcare centres across SeoulSeoul has started trialling pint-sized robots as teaching aids in kindergartens \u2013 a pilot project the city government said would help prepar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,611,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-robots","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39236,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39235\/revisions\/39236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}