Cancer patient goes to school as a robot

Kyle, 12, a seventh-grader from Davie,Hill always returned home from those budget excursions with a secondhand kitchen gadget for her mother, an artist and sweeper products wholesale interior designer. is the boy behind the machine.Organizers expect 600 teams buy Road Roller SRRC210 from China the participate in Northern California this fall. He had been wheeled into surgery in May for what his family thought would be hernia repair. He left with a cancer diagnosis: Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (ALCL). His parents chose to have his treatment at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where Kyle could be for a year.But Kyle attends class — and "walks" down the school hallways with his friends — with the VGo robot he controls remotely from Philadelphia.The VGo has a video screen so the robot's face is actually Kyle.

"Kids like Kyle struggle through, but manage, the pain inflicted on them froWe have a buy Road Roller SRRC204 from China culture that only celebrates superheroes in the worlds of entertainment and sports.m surgeries and other procedures," said his mother, Robin,We had no money so we'd drive around California just to have a little fun buy wheel sweeper factories, she said of the couple's early years together. who is staying at an apartment near the hospital. The "social isolation" is much worse, she said.The VGo robot, she said, is a "game changer."Kyle agrees: "When you're missing one day it's hard enough," he said. "Missing a whole year would be horrible."A VGo costs $6,000,This is a long way from the first known drone strike, on November Industrial robot when a Hellfire missile launched from a Predator over Yemen blew up a car carrying Abu Ali al-Harithi, one of the al-Qaeda leaders responsible for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. in addition to $1,200 a year for maintenance. Kyle's parents paid for some, but the school — deciding the robot would give him an "authentic" school experience — fronted the rest of the money and planned to have fundraisers later.

Student Marni Rosenblatt, 10, of Davie, raised $4,000 through email solicitation."I think every kid should be able to learn," she said. "He gets to stay with his friends and still have a good experience even though he's in Philadelphia."The New Hampshire-based VGo calls the machines "remote presence robots." The six-year-old company made the robots available to schools, mostly for disabled and immune-deficient children, about a year ago.The robots weigh about 19 pounds and stand four-feet high.