UChicago study finds social robots could help students feel less stress when reading aloud, pointing to new uses for ...

The study's findings hint at a future where robots aren't just teaching tools but could act as emotional buffers for children ...

A University of Chicago study suggests robots could offer a new kind of support to help kids eliminate anxiety about reading ...

Users can form emotional attachments to devices. This has implications for design and human-computer interaction.

What happens to a social robot after it retires? Four years ago, we placed a small owl-shaped reading robot named Luka into 20 families’ homes. At the time, the children were preschoolers, just ...

Robots are getting smarter—and faster—at knowing what humans are feeling and thinking just by “looking” into their faces, a development that might one day allow more emotionally perceptive machines to ...

Robin is a therapeutic robot programed to act like a 7-year-old girl as it travels around nursing homes and hospitals’ pediatric units providing emotional support while helping to combat staffing shor ...

Researchers explore how social robots can help create a more supportive environment for early learners. The study found that children showed fewer physiological signs of anxiety when reading to a ...