Researchers believe that children are more willing to share personal information to robots than to humans. Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Westfield Researchers from Cambridge University believe that ...

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 ...

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, ...

UChicago scientists team up with Chicago Public Schools to test if robots need fictional personalities to teach effectively ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robots can be better at detecting mental wellbeing issues in children than parent-reported or self-reported testing, a new study suggests. Robots can be better at detecting mental wellbeing issues in ...

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A child watching a robot provide accurate or inaccurate information. Credit: SUTD In this digital age, children are exposed to overwhelming amounts of information online, some of it unverified and ...