Word: bongiorno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kids love him. The adults love him. He's an attention getter," said Sergeant Richard Bongiorno, Officer Caring's immediate superior...
...robot's head also has room for a video camera. Bongiorno said robots with cameras have been used in a few cases to interview sexually exploited children who refused to discuss their experiences with adults. However, he said only Alaskan courts have admitted evidence gained in this manner...
Officer Caring is the first robot of his kind in New England. Bongiorno said other departments in New York, North Carolina, and Texas have found that robots can keep children's attention longer and that presentations at schools are more memorable for children when the speaker is a robot instead of a human police officer...
Paolillo first saw Officer Caring a year-and-a-half ago at a police chiefs' convention in Utah--and decided to recruit him for the force, said Bongiorno. He said Captain Henry Greene of the Juvenile Division joined the chief in raising the robot's $17,500 price from local contributors. The East Cambridge savings Bank came through with $15,000, and the Polaroid Foundation and the Mount Auburn Veterans of Foreign Wars supplied the rest of the money...
...robot's addition to the force won praise from Mayor Walter Sullivan, Superintendent of Cambridge Schools Robert S. Peterkin, and members of the Cambridge School Committee, Bongiorno said...