The National Science Foundation is spending nearly a half a million dollars to create robots that can tell stories to preschoolers. The $440,885 project seeks to “push the envelope” of normal ...

Bringing just the right amount of silliness into a tidying task gets preschoolers to cooperate, follow directions, and get ...

(TNS) — Four-year-old Roisin Connell practiced learning her shapes and colors with the help of a new friend — a MOVIA robot designed to give her positive feedback as she learns. Roisin and other ...

An Andover preschool has hired an unusual teachers aide — one with metal joints and blinking, blue eyes — to help children on the autism spectrum. Since late November, nearly two dozen students at ...

MIT’s Personal Robots Group has been piloting what they envision as "the preschool of the future" — a marriage between digital devices and a friendly classroom robot that could help tutor preschoolers ...

Researchers found that preschoolers prefer learning from what they perceive as a competent robot over an incompetent human. This study is the first to use both a human speaker and a robot to see if ...

It starts with a spirit of inquiry, and also involves turning a robot into a bird—discover how robotics and art merge together in engaging ways In the spring and summer of 2020, Brooklyn Preschool of ...

Every morning, children at more than 2,000 preschools in China start their days by facing off with a robot named Walklake. The bot looks for signs of illness and alerts a teacher or school nurse if it ...

Who do children prefer to learn from? Previous research has shown that even infants can identify the best informant. But would preschoolers prefer learning from a competent robot over an incompetent ...

There are rare moments in the culture when a children’s book resonates with everyone. Parents who buy the book for their kids find themselves moved by a story that is not intended for them but somehow ...

Using robots to help preschoolers love STEAM Carmelo Piazza, Executive Director/Educational Director, Brooklyn Preschool of Science, & Karen Piazza, Educational Director, Brooklyn Preschool of Science ...