The presence of robots in schools is no longer surprising. How do elementary school children treat humanoid robots? Are they polite to them, and willing to attribute human-like qualities to them?

Robotic reading companions may soon help children overcome one of the most anxious stages in education. University of Chicago PhD student Lauren Wright and her research team investigated how ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes part of everyday life, it is also finding a role in health care. At a children’s hospital in the US state of Massachusetts, a therapeutic robot named Robin ...

Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Robert Guest, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

How can you really tell if your choices actually make a difference to the narrative, apart from replaying the scene continuously? In the past, with two notable previous interactive stories namely ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...