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Boy ‘lived as a robot’ for two months | BBC

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16 April 2013



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Sumi Das reports on an eight-year-old boy who lived vicariously through a robot after a bone marrow transplant.

Filipe Neves Dos Santos‘s insight:

Avatar robot makes  possible the connection between young brothers. These avatar robots are reducing distances and improving the quality of life. 

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