Robots in the classroom help autistic children learn!

Nov 08 2012

Robots in the classroom help autistic children learn!

Robots in the classroom help autistic children learn and could actually be better than their human counterparts… good grief whatever next?

Link to BBC report here

Thanks for the link Jack

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