Schools are using a robot designed for critically ill children to help get pupils back into the classroom.
More than 700 schools since 2018 have used an AV1, an interactive robot operated by an absent child that can talk, turn its head 360 deg and change facial expression.
The robots are described as telepresence, which is the human experience of being fully present at a live location remotely.
They were initially used to help children with illnesses such as cancer with their learning, allowing them to watch and talk to their teachers and see their friends who can carry the robot between lessons and take them to lunch.
