A south-west London pupil with cancer is being helped to keep up with school lessons by an interactive robot.
Howard’s school attendance had dropped below 50% after he started intensive weekly chemotherapy in January, following his diagnosis of a rare kind of arm cancer in December.
But since then, the 12-year-old, who attends a school in Twickenham, was introduced to an interactive avatar and audio visual robot called ‘AV Howard’ and he has been able to attend lessons from home or hospital by sending his electronic double in his place.
Teachers and students have even undergone “robot training” to help them integrate AV Howard into lessons.
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