Robot babies, pregnancy prevention programs increase pregnancy rates in teens @telethonkidshttps://t.co/NiobW0XGPd pic.twitter.com/DDlsUhTh1f The lifelike dolls are meant to teach teenage girls what it's like to raise an infant, warts and all. As part of high school sex-ed programs around the world, teachers give infant simulators to their female students, who care for the robots over the course of a few days. The babies, which can run about 1,000 apiece, are programmed to cry, scream and sleep. Computers tucked within the dolls register when the babies are changed, burped, fed or -- in instances where everything goes drastically wrong -- when they "die." "We've had midnight telephone calls from parents saying: 'Please tell me how to turn it off, my daughter's going crazy,'" as Janette Collins, a London-based youth counselor said to the Financial Times last October.