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Newsela | A robot that can make beds and wash dishes may be in the near future

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Newsela | Developing new "emotional" robots to read human feelings

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Empathic robots that can understand and respond to human emotions were showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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Newsela | NASA is sending a tiny robot helicopter to Mars

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A tiny robotic helicopter will fly in the underbelly of the Mars rover when it takes off in 2020.

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Origami-inspired Robot Can Hitch a Ride with a Rover

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JPL's PUFFER is a scout robot that can flatten itself to crawl into tight spaces.

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Newsela | Robot sings, dances, helps change bandages, makes hospital less scary

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He sings, dances and tells jokes. Before you know it your blood has been drawn, and it didn't hurt all that much. MEDi the robot is on the staff at Broward Health Children's Hospital in Florida.

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Newsela | Sophia, the robot, says artificial intelligence is "good for the world"

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Artificial intelligence's impact on jobs and the economy raises some fear.

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Robot helpers go to school when kids can't

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Robot helpers go to school when kids can't

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Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject.

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Newsela | Students build robots to clean ocean trash

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Sixth-graders in Virginia built and tested out robots in an experiment aimed at cleaning up ocean trash.

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Newsela | No checkout needed: Amazon opens cashier-less grocery store

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With Amazon's cashier-less supermarket, customers can grab their milk and eggs without ever having to wait in line.

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Newsela | Helping the homeless by building houses using a 3-D printer

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Adequate housing for many vulnerable parts of the world could soon roll off a 3-D printer.

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Would you Implant your Phone into your Brain?

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Would you Implant your Phone into your Brain?

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Would You Implant Your Phone in Your Brain?

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Future technology could make it possible.

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How a 3-D printer helped to empower this 13 -year old.

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How a 3-D printer helped to empower this 13 -year old.

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AS YOU READ As you read the articles and study the images, think about how Jordan is fulfilling her mission.

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This is the powerful story of Jordan Reeves, a 13-year-old girl who 3-D printed her own prosthetic arm.

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How do you think shopping will be different 100 years from now? Base your predictions on how shopping has evolved in the past as well as your own research about future technologies. Make your predictions in a list, essay, poster, or illustration.

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How do you think shopping will be different 100 years from now? Base your predictions on how shopping has evolved in the past as well as your own research about future technologies. Make your predictions in a list, essay, poster, or illustration.

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Gitanjali Rao, 13, invented a device to help people find out if their water is safe to drink.

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Newsela | Tommy the robot nurse helps Italian doctors care for coronavirus patients

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Robots like Tommy can measure blood pressure and oxygen saturation for the patients in the intensive care unit.

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Sophia certainly has a lot of fans. But many experts maintain that robots don't need to appear human for us to connect with them. Just look how beloved fictional robots like R2-D2 and WALL-E are. They don't look like people at all.

Plus, humanoid robots have drawbacks, experts say. For one thing, they can set us up to be disappointed. If robots look like us, we may expect them to act like us-and they don't, at least not quite. For example, experts are still figuring out how to make robots laugh at the right moments during conversation.

What's more, very humanlike robots can be unsettling. According to Maja Matarić, the director of a robotics center at the University of Southern California, people generally feel comfortable with robots when they're clearly machines and not human.

"But when you get into the zone of 'Is it a robot or is it not,' that's very creepy for people," Matarić says.

On the other hand, if we want robots to assist us in our everyday lives-cleaning, cooking, shopping for groceries-they'll need to function effectively in spaces built for us, like homes, stores, and cars. And what sort of robot could be better suited to a space designed for humans than a robot that's built to look and move like a human?

Turns out, building a robot that can perform all the tasks a human can is a major challenge-and will cost a lot of money.

Besides, the human body isn't the best design for many of the jobs we want robots to do. That's why some say our time and money should be spent making robots that are optimized for specific tasks. Think of small, flat robot vacuums that can slip under the couch to suck up dust balls or rolling, bin-shaped robots that can carry your belongings from class to class.

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Sophia certainly has a lot of fans. But many experts maintain that robots don't need to appear human for us to connect with them. Just look how beloved fictional robots like R2-D2 and WALL-E are. They don't look like people at all. Plus, humanoid robots have drawbacks, experts say.