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Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often struggle with social behaviors such as recognizing emotional responses in others and understanding gaze direction. Scassellati et al. put a fully autonomous, adaptive robot in the homes of 12 children with ASD for 1 month to help improve the children’s social skills. The robot and a caregiver engaged with each child for 30 minutes every day, playing games that involved activities such as emotional storytelling and taking another’s perspective. The robot autonomously adapted task difficulty to each child’s performance and modeled appropriate gaze directions. The children showed improvements in attention skills and, crucially, demonstrated the improvements while interacting with adults even when the robot was not present.
Sci. Robot. 3, eaat7544 (2018).