Adding robots to therapy can help autistic children develop foundational social skills like taking turns, making eye contact, ...

A damaged ego is usually the worst injury a chess player can come out of a match with. But in Russia, a seven-year-old child playing with a robot was forced to interrupt the game when the machine ...

Last year, researchers found that when kids met a robot in the mall, they would often try to beat it up. Last week, at a shopping center in the Bay Area, the opposite happened: a security robot took ...

Days after Meagan Brazil-Sheehan’s 6-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia, they were walking down the halls of UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center when they ran into Robin the Robot. “Luca, ...

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?

Man versus machine? If kids had to pick, humans might be out of luck. Children are more inclined to trust machines than adults and may, as a result, learn better from bots, according to recent ...

(SOUNDBITE) (English) ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, CATHERINE SO, SAYING:"These individuals with autism, they have low motivation ...

The study of children's interactions with robots was carried out at the Norwegian research fair held in every major city. It is an annual national event where children gain insight into science and ...

A chess robot playing three games at once broke a 7-year-old boy’s finger in a tournament that ended Thursday. According to Baza, the robot “squeezed” the kid’s finger, but it’s possible that’s a ...

They did not want a robot that made a lot of noise because many children with autism spectrum disorder have trouble handling too many stimuli at once. Kiwi is gender-neutral, since researchers wanted ...