A Robot Babysitter

In 2005 Japan made a new robot. It can take care of a child. The new robot is called iPapero. It weighs 13.2 pounds, and has a body of 15.2 by 10.3 and by 9.8 inches.

iPapero is a small robot, but it has many special skills. It can recognize and remember up to ten faces and use its eight separate electronic ears to understand human voices even in noisy situations. It also plays games with children when they are unhappy, or sing songs or ask quizzes to entertain the child. If the child is bored, iPapero will change new songs and quizzes so that it doesn't repeat itself. The robot babysitter even has a cell phone to call a parent when the child asks for his mother.

中文譯文

看小孩的機(jī)器人

2005年，日本制造了一個(gè)新的機(jī)器人。它會(huì)照看小孩。這個(gè)新機(jī)器人叫做iPapero。它13.2磅重，身體是15.2×10.3×9.8英寸。

iPapero是個(gè)小機(jī)器人，但它有很多特殊的技能。它能識(shí)別和記憶多達(dá)十張臉，即使是在吵鬧的情況下，它也能用它八只分開的電子耳朵聽懂人的聲音。當(dāng)孩子們不高興時(shí)，它還和他們玩游戲、唱歌或猜謎語讓他們開心。如果孩子感到無聊了，他會(huì)換新的歌和謎語，這樣就不會(huì)重復(fù)。這個(gè)照看小孩的機(jī)器人甚至還裝有移動(dòng)電話，當(dāng)孩子找媽媽時(shí)，可以用它打電話給父母。

Vocabulary

babysitter 保姆 separate 分開的 electronic 電子的 situation 情形，境遇

entertain 使快樂 quizzes 猜謎，問答比賽（quiz的復(fù)數(shù)）