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

Robotic reading companions may soon help children overcome one of the most anxious stages in education. University of Chicago PhD student Lauren Wright and her research team investigated how ...

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?

Robin is deployed across 30 different health systems, and Expper has plans to deploy 10 more in different states.

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 ...

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, ...

Mind Children Robotics, a Seattle-area startup co-founded by AGI researcher Ben Goertzel, is building Codey — a child-sized social robot priced under $10,000 and aimed at classrooms, hospitals and ...

Could teaching kids how robots are used in the real world create a new generation of designers to build revolutionary machines? That’s the idea behind a new study of children’s perceptions of robots.

As a queer high school freshman, Geo Tucker did not feel welcome in STEM. He says he endured “a lot of bullying and harassment” for it and that, in his experience and the experience of his peers, ...

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 ...

The first lady, Melania Trump, believes that more children should be educated by “humanoid educators.” Melania Trump, the first lady, with Figure 3, a humanoid robot developed by Figure AI, an ...