Robocare: Part pet, part nurse, all robot - the future of care for sick children?

Jordi Albó-Canals with the Linux-based AiSoy educational emotional robot, bottom left, and the PLEO dinosaur-like robot, left: "The child generates data and this data can improve the robot, then the therapy." Jordi Albó-Canals lives between Boston, Panama City, and Barcelona, in a career dedicated to robots. The Catalan engineering professor has worked at MIT and combines his job at the robotics group at La Salle Campus Barcelona, Universitat Ramon Llull, with multiple research projects. Some years ago, he discovered the impact of robotics in education through the First Lego League. Once he had glimpsed the possibilities of robotics in this area, he decided to devote his professional life to developing educational and therapeutic robots to help children.