SciShow Psych: 3 Friendly Robots Improving Our Social Lives

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: You might think of robots as unfeeling, and maybe even kind of cold, but some robots are specifically programmed to help people improve their social skills and emotional health. Here are a few that might make really good pals! Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Katie Marie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Charles George, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079612307640217#! https://www.autism.org.uk/about/communication/social-children.aspx https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2174902/ https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/robot-therapy-for-autism https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/yu-rta030420.php https://www.pnas.org/content/117/12/6370 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/empathy-machine-humans-communicate-better-after-robots-show-their-vulnerable-side/ https://filling-space.com/2018/09/21/creature-comforts-in-space/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6840478/ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1642310 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6650427 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S152586101500345X Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toys_for_sale,_Liverpool_(1).JPG Photos of Jennie provided by Tombot, Inc.


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