With a Robot by Their Side, Kids Understand More of What They're Reading The children are our future -- but so are the robots.

One study suggests social robots might make kids more excited about reading at home—by turning solo reading time into a group activity.

Baxter the Robot Fixes Its Mistakes by Reading Your Mind Oh good. To tell when it's made a mistake, a charming robot reads your mind. Baxter is but a child, with bright eyes and a subtle grin.

A life-sized robot has learned to read notice boards and signs. But let's not get too jaded. What's important here is that the Penn team successfully added the capacity for reading comprehension ...

Penn State engineers have designed a system to help robots read the mind of workers on the job, which researchers say could help build trust and collaboration.

Using a humanoid robot connected to a cap that measures humans' brain waives, researchers have created a mind-reading robot.

For many of us, picking up on someone else's disapproval can lead to anxiety or defensiveness, but for a new mind-monitoring robot, unspoken criticism is the very best kind. In their pursuit of a ...

Researchers have built a robot, named Minnie, to serve as a reading buddy to middle school kids, and Minnie's new friends grew more excited about books and more attached to the robot over two ...

advertisement 06-20-2018 TECH Mind-reading robots are no longer science fiction Meet Baxter, a worker ‘bot built by MIT. If you think he’s made a mistake, he takes notice–and corrects himself.