I came home from my last neighbour’s flat feeling
“Let’s go to the engineering museum today,” my mum suggested. “You’re looking a bit sad, and that’ll cheer you up. There’s a new exhibition there this week about robots!”
I had to admit that sounded pretty good. My mum knows how much I like stories about robots. So I leapt at the
The museum had robots from all over the
And they could do all kinds of things! One could play the piano, one could fly around the room, and several knew how to speak!
“HE-LLO. WHAT IS YOUR NAME?” recited the first robot in a tinny, broken
“What a funny way to talk,” I laughed. “It says everything in the same tone of voice.”
“That’s because it’s a machine, not a person,” said my mum. “It doesn’t have emotions like we humans do.”
I remembered the lady in the playground and how she had told me that without emotions we’d be like
“The robot can talk,” Mum explained, “but it can’t feel joy or sadness. It says it is pleased to meet you, but as you noticed its voice stays the same, it doesn’t sound pleased.”
“I AM PLEASED TO MEET YOU,” the robot announced once more, repeating what it had said a moment
Readmio is an app full of fairy tales and bedtime stories with sounds activated by your voice. Many stories are free, new stories are added every week.
