Abstract
Robotic pet was introduced into kindergarten and nursery school class work for 4-6 aged children in order to investigate the capability of the robotic pet as an intellectual instructor and play mate for early childhood educational nursing support. In this work, various kinds of robotic pet, "AIBO" (SONY) , "PARO" (Intelligent System), "ifbot" (Business Design Laboratory) were used for the first step of this study in order to evaluate ability, fascination to child. Child's interest, which is important to derive positive learning attitude toward class activity, was evaluated by counting of the number of raising their hands as the affirmative response of question about robot. Videotaping by DV-camcorder is also applied to find any problems during session. Most of children were much interested in robot, but some problems of using a robot in a classroom were found. It was also observed that they played very kindly with robots.
