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. In classrooms, libraries and homes, these small machines are ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The books in Peter Brown’s “Wild Robot” trilogy were the first to wallop my son with the mix of tragedy and joy that define great art and also real life. “It made me sad that Roz had to leave ...