Innovation aims to improve lives, and one exciting breakthrough is the use of robots to assist children with learning disabilities.
A professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Waterloo emphasizes the potential of using robots in public education and their great positive impact on students.
Let's find out more.
A useful robot
To explore this potential further, Dr. Dautenhahn collaborated with experts from the Learning Disabilities Society in Vancouver and conducted various tests with a humanoid robot named QT.
QT's advanced capabilities, including gestures, speech, and even facial expressions, make it highly suitable for engaging kids with different learning disabilities.
In the experiment, 15 children were grouped: one group receiving conventional one-on-one instruction, and the other benefiting from the robot's assistance alongside an instructor.
Remarkably, the participants who interacted with the robot showed higher levels of engagement and also greater success in completing tasks.
It can help lots of students
Inspired by these promising results, the specialists plan to conduct more extensive studies using the robot, paving the way for innovative educational approaches.
The groundbreaking findings were recently unveiled at the esteemed International Conference on Social Robotics in Florence.
