The children cried. The village elder, a woman named Tsering who had been Barda’s first student decades ago, refused to sign the transfer order.
Barda was the first robot ever granted a teaching license in the Himalayan Republic. For forty years, she taught mathematics to generations of village children in the high-altitude district of Zanskar. Her chassis was battered, her voice module a little warped from the cold, and her solar panels were patched with salvaged mylar. But she was beloved. barda 2
She drew a single parabola in the dust with a stick. Tenzin smiled. He solved it. The children cried