The AI robot companion called Moxie, which was designed to help teach social skills, is being discontinued after the company lost funding.

A University of Chicago study suggests robots could offer a new kind of support to help kids eliminate anxiety about reading out loud. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...

The company, Embodied, announced this week it had lost funding and will close up shop, reports Aftermath. That will brick Moxie, its cloud-connected $799 educational robot. The company won’t offer ...

Robot roundhouse kicks child — I wish I were making that up, but we have the video evidence, and while I know that AI could generate a similar film, this one appears to be quite, and unfortunately, ...

Earlier this month, startup Embodied announced that it is going out of business and taking its Moxie robot with it. The $800 robots, aimed at providing emotional support for kids ages 5 to 10, would ...

Corrections and clarifications: A previous version of this story misspelled the name of Ben Goertzel. At first glance, Codey looks like a nightmarish character from the year 3000. The machine's beady, ...

Mind Children Robotics, a Seattle-area startup co-founded by AGI researcher Ben Goertzel, is building Codey — a child-sized social robot priced under $10,000 and aimed at classrooms, hospitals and ...

Our students are growing into a world where they will find themselves sharing their space, work, and lives with more and more robots. More than a year ago I read an article about McDonald’s using ...