A team of researchers has developed AI-powered virtual robots that learn to understand language more efficiently by rewarding curiosity rather than rote instruction, offering new insights into how ...

A provocative new analysis has called into question one of the most celebrated promises of social robotics: that friendly ...

Scientists have been trying to figure out how kids pick up language so fast for decades, and a new study out of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) might have cracked part of the ...

Social robots can be a non-threatening way for children to improve their reading skills, researchers say. Meeting key learning targets in primary school is important, and the early years are the best ...

A humanoid robot that costs under $4,000 sounds too good to be true. But that’s the price that Robots, a humanoid robot ...

The presence of robots in schools is no longer surprising. How do elementary school children treat humanoid robots? Are they polite to them, and willing to attribute human-like qualities to them?

In the latest “isn’t everything moving a bit fast?” news, we learn that little robot avatars of children who, for various reasons, can’t or won’t go into schools are present in classrooms across the ...

Adding robots to therapy can help autistic children develop foundational social skills like taking turns, making eye contact, and paying attention. Researchers in Europe added a learning robot to ...