A small European study found that teachers think educational robots have benefits for students, but they're skeptical of fitting robots into the curriculum and using limited class time.

August 8, 2008 Education has long been based around the three R's, but now for computer science students throughout the U.S., a fourth R is making ground - Robotics. A program that began in 2006 ...

In her 6th grade classroom in Fairfax, Va., Lisa Rode uses robots built by her students to teach everything from space exploration to human anatomy.

How do you find the patience to teach a five-year-old abstract programming concepts? Employ this robot.

Robots are arriving in Boston’s public high schools — to serve human students by increasing their interest in science and technology career paths.Softbanks Robotics America has provided… ...

Writing in Science Robotics, scientists say social robots are proving effective in the teaching of certain narrow subjects, such as vocabulary or prime numbers. But current technical limitations ...

The robots were also effective in teaching subjects other than English, the ministry said, citing the results of another project it conducted at 10 Seoul-based schools.

And, yep, unlike computer-based intelligent tutoring systems, they have actual bodies. Robots potentially have two big advantages over other forms of ed tech, van den Berghe et al. note.

American Institute of Physics. "Teaching robots to think like us." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 26 October 2021. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 10 / 211026124247.htm>.