Children Learn Cursive by Teaching Robots

Training 2-foot robot improves 6- to 8-year-olds' handwriting skills. Image credit: Images courtesy of EPFLRights information: EPFL Originally published: Mar 18 2015 - 10:00am, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Peter Gwynne, Contributor(Inside Science) - A team of Swiss and Portuguese scientists has developed a "learning by teaching" program intended to help children improve their handwriting skills by teaching robots to write letters of the alphabet.In preliminary studies of the prototype system,...