Sunday 11 February 2007

Brainstorm Idea - Osama

RoboNanny


Modern life has brought much stress to parents trying to give their children the best start in life.

Child care is a very demanding job, and so it should be as children are the future of society. But parents also have very demanding and stressful jobs nowadays, which makes the task of looking after and making sure that children get the best upbringing even harder.

As parents are feeling more tired and stressed, they are interacting less with their children and spending less time with them. And most parents are finding it hard to, maximise their children's learning capability, feed their kids in a healthy way and spend more time with their children.

Families need more help and support in their homes to give them a better standard of life. But this type of help does not come cheap, as hiring nannies who are qualified to help the children's development is not easy nor cheap. For this reason I propose the development of a RoboNanny, who will not only help the parents in looking after the children but it will also take part in their education.

The core software of the RoboNanny will rely on an intelligent educational agents. These agents aim to maximize the children's learning capability. The intelligent core software will continue to learn itself. The learning will be from interaction with the RoboNanny's environment. And the parents would have control over the orientation of the learning program and can input into it as well. The program will have targets of what the children have to learn and will also test them to ensure that they have the required knowledge.

RoboNanny will also help the parents with the home tasks such as cleaning and cooking, which will allow the family to spend more time together. This will help the family have a more balanced and less stressful life, but most importantly it can be done on a much cheaper and affordable way. We would be able to effect the lives of millions of families in a positive way, as the technology would revolutionize the Nanny world.

Children in their nature are adventurous and tend to like the idea of robots. When designing RoboNanny this will be taken into account. RoboNanny should have a cool look, that children will feel comfortable with. RoboNanny will help the children's education with games which are adapted by the nanny as it learns from its environment and depending on the mood of the children and what they like. But also the nanny would educate the children through everyday interactions.
Children would learn more in a way which is most natural and fun for them, this would be without them even realising that they are been educated.

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