Imagine a scene where your kid reads aloud a short story to a robot. The bell rings for playtime and she tags along the robot to the playground where it motivates her to aim the ball and shoot.
Expecting robots to respond to them in a human-like ways? That is what Latitude published in their study ROBOTS @ SCHOOL in collaboration with LEGO® Learning Institute & Project Synthesis.
The kids were presented with the question - What if robots were a part of your everyday life – at school and beyond?
Quoted from the study:
"From our recent work with children, we know that young people instinctively expect technology to respond to them in very human-like ways—to motivate and empower them, often serving as a sort of companion, rather than merely a tool for solving specific problems. In this way, our study isn’t about robots, per se; it’s about something much bigger. Robots are a useful proxy for understanding kids’ social, creative and learning aspirations in ways that might be more illuminating than if we engaged them directly on such issues. Robots allow kids to project their weaknesses, strengths and ambitions. Of course, they’re also the embodiment of AI, helping us understand generally how we might want to interact with a whole new breed of machine intelligence in the future."
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