Multilingual robot tutor debuts in KwaZulu-Natal
Thando Gumede stands next to her robot tutor invention, Iris. As the topic of linguistic diversity in teaching becomes hotly debated, a local innovator has developed a robot tutor that can “master” subjects in 11 of the country’s official languages. Iris, as the robot is known, is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered robot tutor that aims…