Replacing humans with robots is no longer a concept confined to the big screen, with a cattle station family in remote north-west Queensland bringing in a robot teacher to help their children learn.

The remote-controlled robots are being introduced to a number of homes and schools in rural north Queensland, giving isolated students the chance to interact face-to-face with their human teachers in real time.

The robot — a screen attached to a pole and wheels — is controlled by a distance education teacher hundreds of kilometres away.

It allows the teacher to move around as well as see and speak to the students through the screen, as though they are actually there.

Alyson Ramsay, mother of Tom and Lana — who lives on Mt Hope station two hours south of Charters Towers — said her family jumped at the opportunity to take part in the five-week trial.

"I think it's important to be aware of what technology is out there," Ms Ramsay said.

"Especially being in the bush, we often tend to get the technology a little bit later than everyone else, so if we can be on the forefront of this … it's a good thing."

Lana, Alyson and Tom Ramsay are excited about taking part in the trial. ( ABC News: Travis Mead )

Ms Ramsay said it might take some of time for the family to get used to their new housemate.

"Probably to start with it will be a bit foreign to them to have this thing wandering around the classroom, but it will be interesting to have the teacher that's sitting two hours away just roll in and say g'day," she said.

Lana said she hoped the technology would help her with her language subjects, which were often challenging to learn from a remote classroom.

"We will see the teacher pronouncing the words and it will make it easier learning how to say them exactly," she said.

Lana Ramsay (right) hopes seeing the teacher pronounce the words will help her with language subjects. ( ABC News: Travis Mead )

After spending the past two years away from a standard school environment, Tom — who is in Year 5 — said the idea of having a robot peering over his shoulder was a little daunting.

"She can see if I skip a few questions that I don't think are worth doing or something," he said.

The Charters Towers School of Education said it hoped the technology would improve learning outcomes by linking remote students with mainstream schools, giving them a glimpse of life in a typical classroom.

The technology was launched by Japanese company Nomura Research Institute and if successful could be rolled out across Australia next year.