Move Your Mind: Creative Dancing Humanoids as Support to STEAM Activities

Editorial: Robot-Assisted Learning and Education

“…Empirical research in educational robotics (ER) focuses on the adaptation of the robot behavior to specific learning needs and assessment of student learning and understanding. It is common to use robots to foster STEM and STEAM curricula (Brown and Howard, 2014 ; Shiomi et al, 2015 ; Città et al, 2017 ) with positive outcomes (Benitti, 2012 ). Research in ER have documented a greater involvement of students in learning activities, a support for critical thinking and complex problem solving as well as an increased comprehension of complex concepts and procedures, especially if the robots are endowed with a human-like appearance and social abilities (Leyzberg et al, 2012 ; Li, 2015 ).…”