‘Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.’ J. Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Launching of Live Presentations by the Humanoid Android Robot of Koba lab’s SAYA’

 

 

 

 I congratulate Prof Takuya Hashimoto from the Koba Lab Team of the Tokyo University of Science as well as thank him for the presentation. For many of us, the four-letter word ‘SAYA’ may not mean much but for those who are particularly enthusiastic about student-centred interactive learning, SAYA, which means ‘me’ in Malay, is like a dream turned into reality, especially in the field of Education. We have all heard about SAYA, which is an educational system with a tele‐operated android robot that can express human‐like facial expressions and perform some communicative functions with its head and eye movements. This tele‐operated android robot is today being utilized as a teacher. SAYA is presently based with NGO Société pour la Promotion des Entreprises Spécialisées’ (SPES) at Quatre-Bornes, which has received the National Special Jury ICT Award in 2011. The team is here on a Technical exchange scheme with the Tokyo Koba Lab under the leadership of Prof. Hiroshi Kobayashi of Tokyo University of Science. I wish plenty of success to SAYA and its e-classes with the latest whiteboard and special easy-to-use Keyboards even for people with handicaps. I am sure that the Android teacher SAYA will lead many in a new experimental environment for fun-learning tuition for ALL Ages...

"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."

‘I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.‘ J. Burroughs

‘Don’t do your best work for the applause it generates but for the personal pride it delivers.’ Robin Sharma

‘ For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.'

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." Albert Einstein

‘Closing Ceremony of Symposium on “Diabetes - the way forward”’

 

 

 

 

 

Pious Ganapathi to u all............

‘At the University of Mauritius’

 

 

 

 

‘112th Anniversary of SSR & Viewing of Film on SSR’