Robot uses AI to personalize teaching of autistic children
Get the Full StoryResearchers have developed a new personalized learning robot for autistic children that uses machine learning to adapt its lessons to each kid s changing needs. The University of Southern California team put a socially assistive robot called Kiwi in the homes of 17 autistic children and set the two-foot-tall, green-feathered robot to give each child personalized classes. Over the course of a month, the children played space-themed math games on a tablet device while Kiwi provided feedback and instruction, such as congratulating them on a correct answer or giving tips after a wrong one. As the lessons progressed, algorithms adjusted Kiwi s feedback and the difficulty of the This story continues at The Next WebShare: