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 ...

Pragmata is in the lineage of The Last of Us and The Walking Dead but doesn’t have the same emotional bond. The “sad dad” ...

Pragmata might look like The Last of Us or BioShock with the way it handles dad relationships, but it's saying something much ...

Robotic reading companions may soon help children overcome one of the most anxious stages in education. University of Chicago PhD student Lauren Wright and her research team investigated how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adding robots to therapy can help autistic children develop foundational social skills like taking turns, making eye contact, and ...

A group of researchers from Cambridge University has recently found out that a robot can help children open up their feelings easily during a mental health assessment. It might sound like it is taken ...

When children are chronically ill and unable to attend school, it’s not just the illness that can be debilitating — the separation from the classroom and friends can also take a toll. For young people ...

Robots can be better at detecting mental wellbeing issues in children than parent-reported or self-reported testing, a new study suggests. Robots can be better at detecting mental wellbeing issues in ...

What happens to a social robot after it retires? Four years ago, we placed a small owl-shaped reading robot named Luka into 20 families’ homes. At the time, the children were preschoolers, just ...

A massive security lapse landed the toy industry in the crosshairs of Capitol Hill last week. U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) launched a formal investigation ...