A boy with kidney disease finds a way to thrive in high school thanks to a robot:
“‘His personality helps out a lot,’ says Kent Deville, Lyndon’s chemistry teacher. ‘A shier kid would have problems.’ Lyndon isn’t afraid to call out when he needs help, and he uses the bot’s tricks to his advantage. He can zoom in, take photos of the whiteboard and homework corrections and refer back to everything later. ‘It’s like H.G. Wells,’ Mr. Deville says. Kelsey Vasquez, a classmate, says Lyndon is actually more outgoing as the robot. ‘He’s shier in person,’ she says, at least until he’s had time to relax. ‘I don’t think I could be as happy as he is.’”
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