Robot Will Attend School for 10-Year-Old With Cancer

Peyton Walton calls her robot PAVS, for Peyton's Awesome Virtual Self.

The thin robot, holding an iPad that shows Peyton's face, will bring Peyton to class virtually and will help her socialize with her friends as she rolls down the halls of Poolesville Elementary in Poolesville, Maryland.

It will be in school for five weeks while Peyton, 10, undergoes cancer treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Peyton will see and hear what PAVS will "see" and "hear." She'll control the robot with an app and be able to respond to people talking with her.

"As they see that robot in the hallways, that's Peyton," said Douglas Robbins, principal of Poolesville Elementary School. "She's here, she's with us and she's going to engage in the school day, just like the rest of them."

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