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Hello
This is six minute english from bbc learning english
I'm neil and i'm death one area of technology which has been in the news a lot
Recently is robotics
The design and building of robots
Humanoid robots
Meaning robots
Which appear robehave of romans are being build to help us to everything from washing
The dishes to babysitting the kids
But not everyone feels comfortable with the idea of inviting a human like robots into their home
Neil
How would you feel about living with a robots
But i really don't want to live with rorobot
I have enoupeople people in mans with advances in ai
Robots are becoming smart
Enough to develop meaningful relationships with humans
There are reports of people telling their secrets to robot therapists
And even falling in love with their robot friend in this episode will meet to home companion robot called abby
His making friends with the elderly residents of melbourne in australia
And as usual will learn some useful new vocabulary
All of which you'll find over on our websites
Bbc learning english dot com
First i have a question for you best
Because it's important people feel safe around robot engineers designed them to look like the friendly characters seen an animated movies by studios like pizza and dream works
So what is the name of pixar's friendly robot who picks up garbage on an uninhabited planet earth in the year twenty eight o five is it a ross b wallely or cr to d to i am pretty sad
That the answer is bewwallley well will find out the answer later in the program for five months
During the covered pandemic australian engineer grace brown had no human contact with used this time to build a home companion robot aby with the idea
It would provide companionship to other people suffering lominess
Now grace runun's her own company and dramaa building robots specially designed as company for elderly residents in care homes
Who don't get many visitors
Here she explains more about aby to bbc world service program the conversation
Abby who's the humanoid robot that we built at in dramaa
A people don't expect ct huoid robots to have like so much personality
She's very
Very sssy
She's very insisitive and curious
I think when people meet her
Thethey're always kind of taken back by
Oh
She's like got a mind of her own
When people meet abby
They are surprised by her sessi personality
The adjective sessi means balld confident and cheeky
Sasanpretaken back memeanthey are shocked or
Or pripriby the
The things absasays she seeseems to be jerested and to take cable of the people
She mets abby can also expressed opinions and grace says
She has a mind of her own
Phrase used when a non living object like a robot seems to be behaving or acting independently of human control unlike the unpredictable and violent robots
Which is sometimes portrayin sasahifimomoes
Ababis is much more proprocible and friendly
Even funny
She can blow bubbles from her hand
Her soft dedesign a conscious decision by grace who wanted children and elderly people to interact act with abby natural and without fear as she explained to bbc world services the conversation
I originally modelled off off sisize
Like
Like young chilchild
Like a six seven year old child
That she's about a hundred and ten enemy
This tool
She's got a whole splash of different colors
She's got you know large expressive eyes
So that was out very much
Trying to a replicate
The kind of approachailess and the endarineness of like these different like pixar characters
That you'd watching all of these films
Abb looks like a friendly character from a pixar film
She's the size of a six or seven year old child and decorated with a splash of color
A phrase used
When a bit of color is added to bright up something which is dull or an exciting
Abby also has large expressive eyes
If you describe something as expressive
You mean it shows what someone thinks or feels elderly residents who regularly check with abby say the robot companion brbrings them joy and a sense of community uh well it's good to hear the positive side side technolology
Which can still seeen a it strange or frightenening now i would like to see abbeblowing bubbles from her hand
Now isn't it time you revealed the answer to your pritionnail you asked you for the name of pixas friendly robot who picks up garbage on an uninhabited planet earth in the year twenty eight ofive
And i said it was was llely
And you was up orort that vothe right answer
Okay
Let's recap the vocabulary
We've learned starting with cheeky an adjective meaning to have the appearance and behavior of a human
Someone who is sssy is bold confident and cheeky
If you are taken a back by something
You are shocked or surprised by it now mean an object has a mind of of zown
I mean that it seems to be acting in her pand dently without human control the phrase
A splash of color is used
When a bit of color is added to brighten something which is dull or unexciting
And finally the adjective expressive means showing what someone thinks or feels once again our six minutes or up
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Where you'll find a quiz and worsheeet to practice the vocabulary
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