Children exchange information through multiple modalities, including verbal communication,
gestures and social gaze and they gradually learn to plan their behavior and coordinate …

This letter reports the design, fabrication, and testing of lightweight whisker sensors intended
for use on robotic platforms, especially drones, featuring multiple whisker fibers in an array …

This study investigated a seven sessions interaction between a peer-tutor robot and Dutch
preschoolers (5 years old) during which the children learned English. We examined whether …

Autonomous educational social robots can be used to help promote literacy skills in young
children. Such robots, which emulate the emotive, perceptual, and empathic abilities of …

The presence of social robots in children's daily environments has steadily increased. With
the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), social robots have influenced children's …

Learning is a central component of human life and essential for personal development.
Therefore, utilizing new technologies in the learning context and exploring their combined …

The rise of available physiological sensors in recent years can be attributed to the
widespread popularity of commercial sensing technologies equipped with health monitoring …

Motion is a critical aspect of communication, required to create natural interactions between
humans and robots. Robots for the classroom pose several constraints on motion, which …

The field of social robotics promises robots that can interact with humans in a variety of
naturalistic ways, due to their embodiment, considered form, and social abilities. For …

A robótica educacional é uma área promissora e desafiadora. Um dos seus segmentos de
pesquisa trata da Interação Criança-Robô (cIHR), que busca desenvolver tecnologias para …