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.

A Chinese startup has unveiled a child-sized robot capable of performing continuous backflips.Beijing-based Noetix Robotics ...

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Researchers from the University of Hertfordshire developed a child-sized robot to help autistic children communicate with their peers. His name is Kaspar and he is able to perform human-like ...

Desperate for a solution, the parent came across the “robot” technique which she described as showing “no emotion, no attention” towards the child and involves simply putting them back to ...

“I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself,” Spears, 41, writes in the book.

Noetix Robotics' robot is around 1.3-metres-tall and is expected to cost around 39,000 yuan (£4,100) (YouTube/ CGTN) A Chinese startup has unveiled a child-sized robot capable of performing continuous ...