This is Saya the Robot. She can show different emotions through numerous facial expressions and also take attendance. Naturally, she was hired as a substitute teacher. In fact, she can also speak several different languages, which actually makes her more qualified than most of my substitute teachers in high school (I'm looking at you Mr. Denniston).
A primary school in Tokyo is using her, in part, because the workforce in Japan is declining. Declining workforce? How is there a declining workforce anywhere these days? I suggest my friends in Japan consider some reverse-outsourcing (or just plain outsourcing, if you're in Japan. And yes, I just made up the term "reverse-outsourcing") into the U.S. I personally know more than a handful of people who both (a) are looking for work and (b) can do way better than robots in a lot of areas (including, in some cases, "doing the robot"). [Telegraph via Gizmodo]
By the way, Saya the Robot is not to be confused with Aiko the Fembot, although, if those two ever got together, wouldn't the inevitable result be the robot version of this story? I think yes.
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