The Reading Police Bomb Squad robot was the main attraction Tuesday at Camp Cadet. Cadets Stewart Leighland, 14, of Womelsdorf, left, and Benicio Torres, 13, of Mohrsville race while wearing bomb ...

Two Australian universities have tested “reading robots’’ to encourage primary school children to read out loud, in a teaching experiment that pits ethical alarms against concerns over declining ...

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 ...

Social companion robots are no longer just science fiction. In classrooms, libraries and homes, these small machines are designed to read stories, play games or offer comfort to children. They promise ...

Social companion robots are no longer just science fiction. In classrooms, libraries and homes, these small machines are designed to read stories, play games or offer comfort to children. They promise ...

Social robots can be a non-threatening way for children to improve their reading skills, researchers say. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Meeting key learning targets ...