TAMPERE, Finland – Elias, the new language teacher at a Finnish primary school, has endless patience for repetition, never makes a pupil feel embarrassed for asking a question and can even do… ...

They’re coming, and they’ll be here by September! Robot teachers, programmed with a single mission: to save our failing schools. Funded by the Frankenstein Foundation, computer engineers in ...

Me and some other classmates were … joking about a robot being a teacher/substitute and Mrs. Vo overheard us and mentioned something about programming a robot to kill us and while telling us … ...

For Clint Kiewel, a science teacher at Mitchell High School, the Swivl robot is technology he's wanted to add to his classroom for a while.

The robot links students to teachers located as far away as Australia. Besides being popular with children, the telepresence robot also helps address South Korea's shortage of qualified native ...

Two researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a robot teacher that can gauge students' level of attention and use some of the same techniques as human teachers to bring it ...

Teachers are skeptical of robots being integrated into the classroom.

These robots have been designed to converse with kids, satiate their curiosity, entertain them, read out stories, keep an eye on them, teach them and do most things a parent would.

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.

Japan's robot teacher calls roll, smiles and scolds, drawing laughter from students with her eerily lifelike face. But the developer says it's not about to replace human instructors.