BBC News - Robots in the classroom help autistic children learn: "Autistic children may learn better from robots than from human teachers, according to evidence emerging from a trial at a school in Birmingham.
Two humanoid robots, Max and Ben, have been helping teach children with autism at Topcliffe Primary since March.
The school is one of the first in the UK to try the technology.
Head teacher Ian Lowe said: "The robots have no emotion, so autistic children find them less threatening than their teachers and easier to engage with."
He added: "They are really cute looking. Children with autism struggle with communicating with adults and with other children, but for some reason they engage with these robots.
"Children who first come into school unable to make eye contact with humans start to communicate through the robots."
About a quarter of the children at the school are autistic. It is a mainstream primary that receives specialist funding to support autistic children in separate classes, using a range of technologies.
The robots are knee-high and move like children. The school is using them to teach phonics and play cards or memory and imitation games with children aged from five to 10."
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