Meet a Robot teacher,who took his first class in a school

The female humanoid robot, called Saya, taught a lesson in science and technology to a class of 10 students between the ages of Kudan Elementary School in Tokyo.

With clean hair brown skirt suit pink lipstick, Saya, created by scientists at Tokyo University of Science was designed to resemble a human as possible.

Saya uses a range of programmed movements from eyebrow arching to smiling, her face can express six basic emotions in the classroom - surprise, fear, disgust, anger, joy and sadness.

Professor Hiroshi Kobayashi, the mind behind Saya, said the robot main purpose was to highlight the joys of technology for children.

He said that the teaching robot would benefit schools suffering from a shortage of human teachers.

"In the countryside and in some small schools, there are children who will not make contact with the new technology, and there are few teachers who can teach these lessons," the Telegraph quoted Kobayashi as saying.

He added: "That's why we have to develop this robot so it can be remotely controlled to teach these classes of hope."

Saya was originally developed to work as a receptionist in Japanese companies
Five years ago, but scientists recently re-programmed to take over the role of the teacher.