The study's findings hint at a future where robots aren't just teaching tools but could act as emotional buffers for children.

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nerve-wracking milestone. Reading aloud in class is intended to foster fluency and confidence, ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. In our recent study of families in Canada and the United States, we found that even after a children's reading robot "retired" or was ...

Social companion robots are no longer just science fiction. In classrooms, libraries and homes, these small machines are designed to read stories, play games or offer comfort to children. They promise ...

What happens to a social robot after it retires? Four years ago, we placed a small owl-shaped reading robot named Luka into 20 families’ homes. At the time, the children were preschoolers, just ...

Robots are getting smarter—and faster—at knowing what humans are feeling and thinking just by “looking” into their faces, a development that might one day allow more emotionally perceptive machines to ...

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nerve-wracking milestone. Reading aloud in class is intended to foster fluency and confidence, ...

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