Studies in Europe show robot-assisted therapy can boost engagement and help autistic children develop key social skills.

Dr. Zachary Warren says the robot could be key in teaching social interaction to autistic kids. Children with autism are spending much more time looking at the robot than they would be a human ...

A Saturday morning in Wisconsin doesn’t always come with the sound of whirring motors, clicking gears, and kids cheering as ...

Penn State researchers found many problems with the current generation of social robots. Foto Astrid Eckert/ Universidad Técnica de Munich (TUM) Editor’s note: The Focus on Research column highlights ...

A University of Chicago study suggests robots could offer a new kind of support to help kids eliminate anxiety about reading out loud. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...

Before my daughter got to test out Dash and Dot, our dogs were already getting to know them. I’d gotten the two kid-friendly robots — Dash, who sits up high on three wheels, and Dot, his more static ...

Robotics programs are booming in Southeast Missouri schools, drawing record student participation, hands-on learning, and ...

Learning may well be the most exciting frontier in the whole of robotics. The field itself dates back decades. The 80s, for instance, brought exciting breakthroughs in learning by demonstration, but a ...

For many people, the future inspires nightmare visions of a "robopocalypse," a time when humans become subjugated by their own creations: robot overlords that possess superior physical and ...

Researchers at UC Berkeley are working alongside those at other universities to build a large-scale online learning system called “Robo Brain” where robots can access a single, global database ...