HURON — The Broadland Buddies 4-H Club in Beadle County has been awarded a $400 mini-grant from the State 4-H Leaders of ...

Balls and Lego bricks may be toys, but for Annie Harmon, program assistant for the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering at the West Virginia University Benjamin M. Statler ...

More than 200 elementary students in Mason Public Schools are taking part in a robotics program that pairs them with high ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adding robots to therapy can help autistic children develop foundational social skills like taking turns, making eye contact, and ...

What happens to a social robot after it retires? Four years ago, we placed a small owl-shaped reading robot named Luka into 20 families’ homes. At the time, the children were preschoolers, just ...

A University of Chicago study suggests robots could offer a new kind of support to help kids eliminate anxiety about reading out loud. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...

When children are chronically ill and unable to attend school, it’s not just the illness that can be debilitating — the separation from the classroom and friends can also take a toll. For young people ...

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

Adding robots to therapy can help autistic children develop foundational social skills like taking turns, making eye contact, and paying attention. Researchers in Europe added a learning robot to ...