Young Children’s Learning and Retention of a Social Robot’s Narrative.

A robot engages in dialogic reading with preschoolers. The robot’s active reading was expressive; the robot’s voice included a wide range of intonation and emotion (Expressive). The robot narrated a story from a picture book, using active reading techniques and including a set of target vocabulary words in the narration. Children reported liking and learning from the robot.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28638330