HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong professor has developed an educational programme using role-playing robots to help children with autism improve their social skills, part of an initiative adopted by ...

Robots could help to detect mental wellbeing issues in children, a study has suggested. A child-sized humanoid robot was used by Cambridge University researchers to complete a series of questionnaires ...

Robots could be introduced in classrooms across the UK to help children with autism. The robots called Max and Ben are said to improve social interaction and communication skills for children.

Edmonton's Stollery Children's Hospital plans to add a walking, talking MEDi robot to its workforce, to help ease pain and anxiety for kids facing medical procedures or hospital stays. A MEDi robot ...

Lundy Lewis, an academic and researcher in artificial intelligence and human-robot interaction, is watching a pair of six year-old boys playing with social robots in the gym at CHEO’s site for autism ...

Learning to read is difficult, and reading aloud is anxiety inducing for plenty of kids. From not being able to pronounce a word, to being mocked by their peers for stumbling while speaking, reading ...

Would a child open up to a robot interviewer about being abused? That's the question Mississippi State University computer scientists Cindy Bethel and Zachary Henkel have been exploring. Children's ...

Researchers had a child-sized humanoid robot complete a series of questionnaires with children to assess mental wellbeing. Robots could help to detect mental wellbeing issues in children, a study ...