In her PhD research, Anouk Neerincx investigated how robots can help reduce stress, how they can get children to talk about their health and how they can teach children emotional skills.

Beijing-based Noetix Robotics built the N2 humanoid bot to serve as a budget-friendly robot assistant, with an estimated price tag of 39,000 yuan (£4,100). The 1.3-metre-tall bot is bipedal and ...

“The honesty of a child also has no judgment ... One benefit is clear, Scassellati says: Robots can provide personalized, on-demand care—and the need for that will only increase in the ...

Its "baby boomer" generation, a bulging cohort created by a spike in post-war child births from 1947 ... doll-sized robot assists a care worker by singing pop songs and leading residents in ...