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 ...

Toy robots are nothing new. In the 1980s, the R2D2-like Tomy Verbot or the clunky Milton Bradley Big Trak let kids program their movements or actions using voice commands or a keypad. The marketing ...

Dobot is bringing factory-grade robotics into your living room with the launch of the Rover X1, the world’s first household intelligent robot priced at 7,499 yuan ($1,053). But this isn’t just another ...

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nervewracking milestone. Reading aloud in class is intended to foster fluency and confidence, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

Given the ease of use, smart speakers have increasingly become another toy for children to interact with. Many devices include family friendly functionality, with Google Home’s story feature being a ...

The group of kids, aged 7 to 12, sat around a table, trying to follow along with the reading assignment. It was after lunch. Energy was high, attention spans short. Nobody held books, though. And a ...