Korean schools to deploy robot chaperones

[The Straight Story]

Korean schools to deploy robot chaperones
Teenage lusts curbed by remorseless German technology

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Korean educational authorities have a bold new plan to curb the ever-rising tide of teenage lustfulness. Students at a middle school (ages 13-15) in southern Seoul are to be watched by robots from this week in a trial security project.

The robot in question, the OFRO, was designed in Germany but is made in Korea by DU Robo. It has already tackled soccer hooligans at last year's World Cup in Germany.

According to DU Robo, the use of robots to patrol an educational institution is a world first. The machines will protect youngsters from violence and "other dangers", according to reports. Such as those attendant on yielding to unbridled lust, apparently.

"One possible scenario is that OFRO will alert officials when it detects someone trying to seduce a student," DU Robo CEO Kang Jung-won told the Korea Times.

"Then, teachers will send a warning to the perpetrator through a loudspeaker," he said. If the youthful lothario failed to comply, or if the situation involved an intruder, human security guards could be despatched to the scene.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/01/robo_chaperones_for_korean_schools/

[jwirr]

1. Robot chaperons - is that like bundling boards?

[mike_c]

2. sergeant sprocket of the morning stiffy patrol....

Stand down, young man!

[SayWhatYo]

3. can it open doors?

:P When I read this part "It has already tackled soccer hooligans at last year's World Cup in Germany", I actually got kind of excited because I thought it meant it literally tackled them... then I saw what it looked like.

Anyways, I kind of doubt this thing would be of much use... I wonder if it would simply be cheaper and more effective to install wireless mics and cameras wherever they wish to watch...