Questions and answers

  1.

Q. Why did wild dogs start hanging around ancient humans?

A. Scientists speculate that the dogs came begging cooked scarps of meat from the human camps and that the ancient people found dogs, with their better hearing and sense of smell, to be useful companions.

 
  2.

Q. How does owning a dog have affect human health?

A. During quality time with pet dogs, owners' bodies release larger amounts of natural painkillers, such as endorphins, prolactin, and oxytocin. This increases the strength of human immune systems.

 
  3.

Q. What is Lady Jane's software designed to do?

A. The software allows the robot dog to develop and mature over time with care and training, just like a real dog.

 
  4.

Q. What were the results of the study comparing the effects of real versus robot dogs on people's health?

A. The blood pressure of humans playing with the robot dog did not go down in 9 of 10 subjects, showing that real dogs do help in human health improvement and robots do not.

 
   

Click here to download this teaching guide optimized for printing (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).