Joshua Martinangeli, 7, cannot attend classes due to a severe lung disease. The German student interacts with his teacher and classmates through an avatar robot that sits in his place in class and gives a blinking signal when he has something to say. “The children talk to him, laugh with him and sometimes even chitchat with him during the lesson,” says the school headmistress. The project is an initiative by the local council in the Berlin district Marzahn-Hellersdorf. “It does happen from time to time, for various reasons, that a child cannot go to class in person. Then the avatar can give that child a chance to remain part of the school community,” says a local district education councillor.
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