A study has revealed that robots can serve not merely as toys but as excellent teachers for children with autism spectrum ...

Our students are growing into a world where they will find themselves sharing their space, work, and lives with more and more robots. More than a year ago I read an article about McDonald’s using ...

Today's robotic world is a fairly advanced one, with a wide variety of machines capable of doing a whole lot of amazing things. Yet our world is far from having reached the peak of this industry while ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on Dec. 26, 2022. Find that audio here. Danielle Boyer realized at age 10 that the kids in her Ojibwe community weren’t learning about their own ...

How would you feel if your child were being tutored by a robot? Social robots – robots that can talk and mimic and respond to human emotion – have been introduced into classrooms around the world.

I’m standing in a kitchenette at a Google office in Mountain View, California, observing a robot at work. It’s staring at items on a counter: bubbly water, a bag of whole-grain chips, an energy drink, ...

Okay, this story is Tom bait. As regular readers of this Blog know, I am all about the coming robot revolution. Why am I all about it? Because it’s coming and we’re not getting ready. Smart, dexterous ...

Politeness doesn’t really amount to much when you’re programmed to get from point A to point B. But if robots are going to play an increased role in human society, questions arise around how precisely ...

Danielle Boyer realized at age 10 that the kids in her Ojibwe community weren’t learning about their own Indigenous culture and history. Oftentimes, schools only teach about colonial settlers’ ...