{"id":1626,"date":"2026-01-30T16:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:13:24","slug":"norways-lovable-terminator-helping-sick-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1626","title":{"rendered":"Norway&#8217;s lovable &#8220;terminator&#8221; helping sick children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AV1-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AV1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1627\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AV1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AV1-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AV1-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AV1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AV1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Pupils can make the robot &#8220;their own&#8221; by dressing it up and decorating it. Photo: Lars Bevanger<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In science fiction, robots are often portrayed as a malevolent threat. But in real life, they can be of great help, sometimes for the most unfortunate in society. A Norwegian company is now having success across 17 countries with a small robot that can represent absent pupils in the classroom. Here is my report  from Oslo for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/inside-europe\/program-19041931\">Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Norways-little-robot.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In science fiction, robots are often portrayed as a malevolent threat. But in real life, they can be of great help, sometimes for the most unfortunate in society. A Norwegian company is now having success across 17 countries with a small robot that can represent absent pupils in the classroom. Here is my report from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}