If You Give Students a Social Robot... - World Robot Summit Pilot Study

The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence's Report of the 2015 Study Panel [1] predicts artificial intelligence (AI) to "enhance education at all levels, especially by providing personalization at scale" (p.31). Interactive machines are already tutoring students in classrooms. It is predicted that the use of these technologies in our lives, including in classrooms, will drastically increase in over the next fifteen years. This paper presents a pilot study examining the Co-Bot experience of students participating in a robotics competition. The study focuses on child robot interaction (cHRI) in education by looking at students identified as active users of social robots. Data was collected during the World Robot Summit Junior Category, School Robot Challenge Workshop and Trial 2017 held in Tokyo, Japan in August 2017.