With the touch of a screen, Pepper, the robot, came to life.
Jentry Wetmore, 7, was there for it.
She started moving her hands like a musical conductor as soon as the 4-foot-tall robot began talking, playing music, and waving its plastic human-like arms, fingers, and hands. Eventually, the second grader broke into a dance right there in the library at Eastern Montgomery Elementary School in Elliston.
“It’s so fun,” Wetmore said after she slowed down to catch her breath. “I like robots.”
Her reaction matched many of the other students in the midst of a loud library scene on a recent Wednesday afternoon. Some sat on the floor trying to coax Aibo, a robot dog, to fetch a ball and walk toward them. Others experimented with oranges and a tomato that, when hooked up to a laptop, made different sounds at the touch.
There was lots of laughing, even squealing.
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