In the article “Robot Nannies are Here” by Alice LaPlante, the author explains about the potential of robots being in childcare. Also, if people will trust this robot to be around their children. One concern that some studies showed is that the evolving of these robots can create a risk towards the children and the society.
Robots can be more efficient than humans in daily with children. It will reduce the danger that the child may experience during the time his parents at work. However, are robots going to provide the emotions sense that human can do?
The author states that “They claim that the overuse of childcare robots could have serious consequences for the psychological and emotional wellbeing of children” I agree with the author point here because robots will not replace the emotional love that human can provide for their children. A child needs mother apse more than anything and robots cannot do. If children are around robots all day, they will be affected by them. They will grow in a new lifestyle norm. If a child is bored, a babysitter can play games with him and they will have some interaction which will make him feel better. In contracts, when it comes to a robot in playing games with a child, the robot will function as an iPad, and most of them time parents give their children these devices just to stay away from something and keep quiet. So, mainly these robots do not have the same inactions as human have.
Another example, child need someone to hear them more than just to play a game or watching T.V. Let us say if he has some problems in school such as, someone bullied him, a robot will not have the same therapy feelings the human does to discuss about what situation happened to him. This is a real problem which can lead a child to grow with depression. A child needs feeling more than articulate intelligent around him. He needs someone to look after him all the time a show love and make him feel happen not an automatic computer that walks around and tells him a story or play games. A child wants to feel containment and someone to hung him when he is having a bad mood, robots can never provide that.
To conclude, artificial intelligent can be more efficient than humans in many things, but they cannot replace the human emotions. I am wondering what if the robot got hacked by someone what would happen to our child is, he going to direct our child to get out home? I think robots can replace many jobs soon even in the medicine firm. However, I think the only job that they cannot replace is psychology or therapy because they mostly deal with human emotions.
LaPlante, Alice. “CenturyLink Brand Voice: Robot Nannies Are Here But Won’t Replace Your Babysitter — Yet.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 29 Mar. 2017,
