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

Social companion robots are no longer just science fiction. For example, after a children's reading robot became inactive, most households chose to keep it.

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nervewracking ...

Like a lot of children, my sons, Toby, 7, and Anton, 4, are obsessed with robots. In the children’s books they devour at bedtime, happy, helpful robots pop up more often than even dragons or dinosaurs ...

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 ...