The girl’s mother discovered the robot while she was cleaning her daughter’s room. She was using it to do her handwriting homework assignments for her.

A Chinese student sparked debate earlier this week after her mother discovered the teenage girl bought a robot and trained it to imitate her handwriting so she can finish her homework.

We've gone from the days of "the dog ate my homework" to "the robot did my homework for me."According to a report in recent days from a Chinese newspaper, a young schoolgirl there recently spent ...

Instead of having to manually copy phrases or selections from a textbook dozens of times, a repetitive task common in learning Chinese, she could just teach the robot to do it for her.