A lightweight robotic device has helped children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) achieve a ...

A new study reveals that 3-year-olds read intention in human eyes but fail to recognize nonverbal preferences in a robot's gaze.

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, ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

Very young children (even as young as 3 years old) can read intention and preferences in the eyes of a person, but they do not recognize this type of nonverbal communication in the gaze of a humanoid ...

When children are chronically ill and unable to attend school, it’s not just the illness that can be debilitating — the separation from the classroom and friends can also take a toll. For young people ...

The adult world is ever more full of robots. Children’s entertainment feels as if it’s working hard to make them seem adorable. By Diego Hadis See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra ...