Hadi Moradi, the project manager of ‘Parrot Robot Design Project for Autistic Children’ told Mehr News that the parrot robot had the ability to distinguish colors, specific geometric shapes, voices, and persons, and was remotely controlled; “diagnosis of autism in affected children is possible through interviewing the parents by an specialist; given the different behavior displayed by autistic children and normal children in reaction to parrot robot, the autism is easily diagnosed,” he added.
Moradi said that the robot had undergone tests for its ability to diagnose accurately the autism; “now, the parrot robot is undergoing test in its ability to training autistic children in getting the turn in a queue; the robot is considered second in the raw, and the autistic child should realize when it is the parrot robot’s turn; we expect to see the test results by upcoming two months,” he detailed about the process.
