Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better

Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...

Families with ASD often struggle with social and emotional communication. This work explores the role of an embodied agent (a social robo...

Doodle Bot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware,...

Children’s creativity—the ability to come up with novel, surprising, and valuable ideas—has been known to contribute to their learning ou...

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...

How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?

Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and ...

How to Train Your Robot Companion is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this cour...

How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US chi...

The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon t...

Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of o...

Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For...

Social robots are increasingly being developed for long-term interactions with children in domains such as healthcare, education, therapy...

Text-to-Motion generates a sequence of contingent robot animations to accompany the sentiment analyzed from an input sentence and its spo...

Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they l...

Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...

Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...

Most countries are projected to see the number of people ages 65 and older surpass the population under the age of 15 by 2050. The limita...

Early literacy plays an important role in a child's future. However, the reality is that over 57 million children have no access to a sch...

The Huggable is a new type of robotic companion for health care, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable is much m...

Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...

Young Learner's Companion Developing robots' growth mindset and pro-curious behavior and fostering the same in young learners via lo...