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. Researchers have used them to read stories to preschool students in Singapore, help 12-year-olds in Iran learn English, improve handwriting among young children in Switzerland and teach […] … learn more→

Social robots appear to be entities with feelings and relational capacity. They are technologies with pretensions to be social as people and other animals. Social robots do not use them, we relate to them. Your ability to address us on our own terms is the basis of your wonderful potential. However, it also involves certain concerns that are interesting to know. […] … learn more→