The AI robot companion called Moxie, which was designed to help teach social skills, is being discontinued after the company lost funding.

Joanna Stern says her experiment with AI reinforced the importance of human relationships, skepticism, and real-world ...

Kids became enthralled and attached to the oblong teal robot, referring to it as their best friend. Four years later, Embodied, the company that created Moxie, shut down. Children were distraught as ...

Robot police dogs and food delivery robots are already in use. Now, humanoid AI robots have entered the classroom, with Altus Charter School in San Diego investing in two $500,000 ChatGPT-powered ...

Norway restricts AI in education, while a San Diego school invests $500,000 in humanoid AI robots as teaching partners, ...

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In a world where self-driving robotaxis glide through major city streets without drivers behind the wheel and delivery drones ...

In 2025, the tech journalist invited artificial intelligence to do nearly everything for her, including editing the book she was writing about the experiment. Some of it was useful, some not – but it ...