The social robot teacher
NAO, a humanoid robot designed by French firm Aldebaran Robotics, has been used as a teaching resource for kids with autism in schools since 2013. The program aims to improve their social interaction and verbal communication skills with interactive educational games. And the international research project L2TOR, funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission, designed a child-friendly tutor robot to teach preschoolers a second language. In the home, social robots, like AvatarMind’
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