“Be careful to stress, again, the pronunciation is essential. In a high school in Seoul, teacher-robot Engkey not give peace to his students not until their English improves. Famous for very good high school level math and science in general, South Korea is still a problem with foreign languages, because of shortages of teachers in these subjects. In fact, the great problem of government in Seoul was until recently a lack of teachers of English, considering that a large percentage of South Korean students choose to study in America.

South Korean government is but the solution found: 8,400 schools have launched intensive English programs, following a Engkey army, not a name “of baptism,” but a “merger” between English and Jockey. From Engkey, and hundreds of “colleagues” of it, South Korea expects the next miracle school.

Looking like penguins, these robots are tireless teachers, scrupulous and severe. And at a price of $ 8,000 each, cost much less than a South Korean professor, let alone a foreign. In addition, for students from South Korea, increased computer and smart phone, a professor Engkey is definitely cool.

Engkey’s method has nothing to do with the audio-visual used for decades. The robot not only repeat phrases, but listen and correct, being endowed with empathy. Artificial Intelligence’s software adds human voice recognition, more sophisticated, new capabilities for the interpretation of human facial dynamics “catch” emotions “of performing a simple or a grimace. Last but not least, unlike human teachers, give evidence and “an infinite patience,” he said with no trace of irony, researcher Patricia Kuhl, director of the “Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences in Washington.