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As one, a boy and a robot go to school

Device lets ill 2nd-grader attend class from home

By CAROLYN THOMPSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted: February 18, 2013 at 2:56 a.m.

VGo robot’s wireless hookup lets Devon Carrow move down the hall with his class at Winchester Elementary School in West Seneca, N.Y.

DAVID DUPREY
Credit: AP
VGo robot’s wireless hookup lets Devon Carrow move down the hall with his class at Winchester Elementary School in West Seneca, N.Y.

In an elementary school hallway, a teacher takes her second-graders to the library, leading a single-file line of giggling boys and girls that’s perfectly ordinary until you get to a sleek white robot with a video screen showing the face of a smiling, chubby cheeked boy.

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Devon stands for the Pledge of Allegiance along with his classmates. (By: DAVID DUPREY) (Credit: AP)

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Second-grader Devon Carrow watches his classmates from home through his robot, which uses a wireless video hookup to give Dev... (By: DAVID DUPREY) (Credit: AP)

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