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cool use of technology. i could see this becoming more and more common. check out this story of robots in the classroom: robots keeping hospital-bound boy a presence in his school classes. 13-year-old Achim Nurse suffers from a severe skin rash brought on by a case of bacterial meningitis and must remain bandaged and in a hospital bed until he’s better. Using a pair of robots - one named “Mr. Spike” at his bedside, and another named “Mrs. Candy” in the classroom - Achim can keep up with his schoolwork and his friends for the months he will be hospitalized. Achim can push a button on his control console at his bedside to have his classroom based robot raise it’s hand to answer a question at school. very cool. the program that makes this possible is called PEBBLES (Providing Education By Bringing Learning Environments to Students) and was created by telbotics. read more press about the PEBBLES & Teleprescence program via the telbotics news page.