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Cambridge research finds 60cm-tall humanoid called Nao helped children open up about feelings

The research team says robots could be used to help detect mental wellbeing issues in children.

The team of researchers from the University of Cambridge say that robots could be a useful addition to traditional methods of mental health assessment, although they are not intended to be a substitute for professional mental health support.

Researchers from Cambridge University say that children are more confident divulging private information to robots than to humans.

The researchers found that children with varying levels of wellbeing concerns interacted differently with the robot.

Researchers had a child-sized humanoid robot complete a series of questionnaires with children to assess mental wellbeing.

Researchers looked at whether collaborative robots could be employed in a microbiology lab to perform small tasks that were demonstrated by the operator using kinesthetic teaching.

A new study has evaluated the reception of touching behaviors from a social robot for the first time.