Hadi Moradi, the project manager of ‘Parrot Robot Design Project for Autistic Children’ told Mehr News that the parrot robot had the ability to distinguish colors, specific geometric shapes, voices, and persons, and was remotely controlled; “diagnosis of autism in affected children is possible through interviewing the parents by an specialist; given the different behavior displayed by autistic children and normal children in reaction to parrot robot, the autism is easily diagnosed,” he added.
Moradi said that the robot had undergone tests for its ability to diagnose accurately the autism; “now, the parrot robot is undergoing test in its ability to training autistic children in getting the turn in a queue; the robot is considered second in the raw, and the autistic child should realize when it is the parrot robot’s turn; we expect to see the test results by upcoming two months,” he detailed about the process.
He also predicted teaching objects to autistic children and distinguishing individuals’ feelings as possible future plans; “the designing of the robot is unique even across the world; the robot was developed by close collaboration of Cognitive Science and Technology Council of Presidential Deputy for Science and Technology for the first time,” Moradi added.
“Currently, other types of robots such as ‘Nao,’ which are priced at thousands of dollars; our parrot robot however is only $ 1,700, and awaits industrial-level mass production; the robot would be used in other applications such as entertainment and language learning,” he told reporters.
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