The Moxie AI robot cost $800 and was marketed to parents to help teach children social skills. The company sent customers an email in late November announcing it would be shutting down. Parents of ...

Robots are here — and they’re ready to teach your children and grandchildren. Miko is an artificial intelligence-powered robot that was designed specifically to take kids' learning to a new level. The ...

A team of Purdue students and faculty recommends these microelectronic-focused toys for developing STEM skills ...

Over the past few years, we've seen a number of robots with artificial intelligence designed for kids introduced, including everything from a robotic unicorn to a robot that helps kids avoid road ...

Learning to read is difficult, and reading aloud is anxiety inducing for plenty of kids. From not being able to pronounce a word, to being mocked by their peers for stumbling while speaking, reading ...

Those viral Chez Robots are everywhere this summer — including summer camp. Eleven kids aged 7 to 10 attended summer camp last week, keeping cool and giving a voice to their very own “viral robot,” ...

Making mistakes is human, but it’s not limited to humans. Robots can also glitch. As we fast-forward into a future with upgraded AI technology making its way into the classroom (and beyond), are kids ...

You say that, but anthropomorphizing things, especially that can display emotion in a human way is actually a key to helping children with autism learn interacting with people and understanding ...

It was an interesting year for robots at CES 2025. While we had hoped the AI boom would bring a new wave of useful robots to ...

Moxie, a playful robot that first got attention for helping kids with loneliness and anxiety through the COVID-19 pandemic, is getting an AI upgrade and picking up some tutoring skills. The tabletop ...

If you have a kid heading to college in the fall, it might be time to have the talk. It's okay to experiment, but don't go crazy for the first robot you meet -- you'll have others. That's because ...