The following is an excerpt from The New Breed: What Our History With Animals Reveals About Our Future With Robots by Kate Darling. The Huggable is a soft, fully animated blue teddy bear with a green ...

Humanoid robot “teaching assistants’’ that listen to children read are under development for classrooms, as busy parents shun reading stories to their own kids.

Kids adore their new robot siblings. As millions of American families buy robotic voice assistants to turn off lights, order pizzas and fetch movie times, children are eagerly co-opting the gadgets to ...

Children in the study interacted with different animated images. (UW Image) Kids taught to say “Bungo” to get a smart assistant to speed up know they are talking to a robot and don’t use the same tone ...

The presence of robots in schools is no longer surprising. How do elementary school children treat humanoid robots? Are they polite to them, and ...

The 21st century may not involve flying cars just yet, but there are still plenty of technological advances in the machine world that can make your life easier right now. Here are 10 tasks that robots ...