Caring for a child requires empathy, patience, dedication and all those other human touches, but as we zoom further into the 21st Century, technology is taking a more hands-on role in all our lives and artificial intelligence has real-world functionality. AI is already making Siri, Alexa, Tesla, Amazon and Netflix smart at knowing what we want to do, buy and watch; and developments in this field indicate that AI can also help humans care for children. Here we look at four innovations that use AI to assist with child care and early learning. Muse is an AI-powered mobile app that asks parents daily questions to help them enrich their child's life (e.g. 'Has your child eaten a serving of a new food today?').

Parents want the best for their children. While the goal is apparent, figuring out how to do it is challenging. Parents want their kids to be healthy, happy, secure, smart, sociable, smart, athletic, etc. That is a lot to do considering that they have to balance it out based on how quality time they can make for their child, how much resources they can put in to child development, meeting socio-economic needs, etc. With everyone turning to artificial intelligent assistants for help, could there be an AI digital assistant for parents doing one of the most human of things: raising their children?

Parents want the best for their children. While the goal is apparent, figuring out how to do it is challenging. Parents want their kids to be healthy, happy, secure, smart, sociable, smart, athletic, etc. That is a lot to do considering that they have to balance it out based on how quality time they can make for their child, how much resources they can put in to child development, meeting socio-economic needs, etc. With everyone turning to artificial intelligent assistants for help, could there be an AI digital assistant for parents doing one of the most human of things: raising their children?

At kindergarten, 3-year-old Seven Kong has his schoolmates to play with, but at home his best friend is a kidney-shaped, lime-coloured android named BeanQ. The two spend hours together, with Seven peppering the robot with a continuous stream of questions. The green android responds with similarly simple words and phrases, alongside an array of different emoji facial expressions displayed on a large screen, which serves as its face. Recommended to the family by a friend, the android is intended to be an early educator, sharing some of the parental burden. "When we get really busy, BeanQ can be there keeping him entertained," said Seven's mother Liu Qian, 33, who is a work-at-home mom living in Beijing.

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