Robots could be used to help kids diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a new research project carried out jointly by a university and a robotics startup. Researchers at ...

So far, almost 300 kids in Britain with autism, a disorder that affects development of social interaction and communication, have played with a Kaspar robot as part of scientific research.

All this is important not actually for letting robots raise our kids as I jested above, but for making all human-computer interactions more natural — without overdoing it or making it creepy.

Armed with this information, you should be able to look at nearly any robot and identify many of its subsystems. You'll be surprised how much this will increase your confidence in understanding how ...

The robot had played three other matches that day and, during the incident, was facing 7-year-old Christopher, who’s described in the local media as among the top 30 players in the country under ...

For many autistic kids, social interaction is incredibly difficult–but not with robots. That’s because robots are more predictable and require the children to take in less external stimuli ...

Root’s developers hope to extend the robot’s social reach by creating a website where kids can show off their code and teachers can swap lesson plans. “Longer term, we’d like there to be that kind of ...

"I've grown up loving robots my whole life," she told Business Insider. "As a kid, I used to play with my aunt's 2XL robot — it was a robot from the '70s and '80s that had an eight-track tape deck.

Combining Star Wars with robot education, the Droid Inventor Kit is a rolling barrel of fun with plenty of lessons thrown in. Kids use the parts to build and decorate a moving R2-D2-like astromech ...

The “actors” were played by three robots, programmed to give the wrong answer. In a sample of 43 volunteers, 74 percent of kids gave the same incorrect answer as the robots.