Monday, 12 February 2007

Analysing the Market

We are assuming that in 10-15 years AI and robotics would have evolved to offer the functionality required for the teaching assistant.

To our knowledge there is not a fully functional robot teaching assistant available in today's market, however there are robots that can offer some of the functionality, for example, the Honda robot Asimo. This robot offers different functionality to what we are suggesting., for example, Asimo offers no speech functionality, hence could not be considered as a teaching assistant.

After researching into alternative teaching assistants a number of tools were discovered with the majority being on-line. However these tools offer very limited functionality in comparison to the robot teaching assistant.

The screen-shot below demonstrate a basic teaching tool that we have researched:



The tool above is typical of many software teaching tools that can be regarded as offering very limited functionality and not comparable to the robot teaching assistant. To conclude the robot assistant can be regarded as a revolutionary teaching assistant offering the next generation of teaching assistant technology.

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