The Educator 1 December, 2025
Hitting early literacy milestones matters, and the first years of primary school are often when teachers spot students who need a little extra support.
New research led by Associate Professor Nathan Caruana at Flinders University, working with teams in Switzerland and Australia, tested whether child-friendly social robots could play a useful role. The study involved 35 children aged five to nine — some struggling with reading, others tracking typically — and looked closely at how they reacted to having a robot as a learning companion.
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