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Research about using social robots in the classroom is a growing topic with many unstudied/understudied problems. With the capabilities of these robots expanding rapidly, it has become necessary to explore the uses of robots in addressing persistent challenges in education. The rapid advancement in the technology of artificial intelligence, such as affective computing and natural language processing, makes the reality of social robots in schools more possible now than ever. In the early stages of research, there are many questions to be answered about these robots and their potential applications, technological limitations, and ethical uses. Although the use of social robots in the classroom may be in its infancy, there are many studies that help define where the research stands today.
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Blackburn, J., Blankenship, C., Yuan, F., Hodge, L., Zhao, X. (2021). Use of Social Robots in the Classroom. In: Li, H., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13086. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90525-5_75
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