The AI robot companion called Moxie, which was designed to help teach social skills, is being discontinued after the company lost funding.

Mind Children Robotics, a Seattle-area startup co-founded by AGI researcher Ben Goertzel, is building Codey — a child-sized social robot priced under $10,000 and aimed at classrooms, hospitals and ...

Corrections and clarifications: A previous version of this story misspelled the name of Ben Goertzel. At first glance, Codey looks like a nightmarish character from the year 3000. The machine's beady, ...

Chennai's Class 3 students learn robotics by calculating motor RPM and predicting robot speed, emphasising applied education ...

Social robots can be a non-threatening way for children to improve their reading skills, researchers say. Meeting key learning targets in primary school is important, and the early years are the best ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Kids Explore Robotics, co-founded by Vinod Agrawal, offers hands-on robotics education for children, including year-round classes and a Summer Robotics Camp available both ...

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 ...

The company, Embodied, announced this week it had lost funding and will close up shop, reports Aftermath. That will brick Moxie, its cloud-connected $799 educational robot. The company won’t offer ...

A University of Chicago study suggests robots could offer a new kind of support to help kids eliminate anxiety about reading out loud. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...

Adding robots to therapy can help autistic children develop foundational social skills like taking turns, making eye contact, and paying attention. Researchers in Europe added a learning robot to ...