Iranian teacher builds robot to teach prayer

February 26, 2014

An Iranian schoolteacher has innovated an amusing way of encouraging young children to say their daily prayers robotics.

Akbar Rezaie, 27, attended private robotics classes and learned to develop and assemble customised humanoid robots.

He teaches the Quran to boys and girls at Alborz elementary school in the town of Varamin, 35 kilometers southeast of Tehran.