Fortune September 1, 2022
Sophie Mellor

A robot might be better than parents at detecting mental well-being issues in children.

That’s according to a team of roboticists, computer scientists, and psychiatrists from the University of Cambridge who found children were more willing to confide to a child-sized humanoid robot on the state of their mental well-being than to questionnaires given online or in person.

As part of the study, researchers gave 28 child participants, aged eight to 13, a child-sized humanoid robot that asked them a series of questions about their mental well-being. The robot asked open-ended questions about happy and sad memories and administered several questionnaires that measured mood and mental health.

In all cases, the children enjoyed talking with the robot and shared information...

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