An Emotional Intelligent Robot for primary education: The software development

Abstract

In the past few years, one of the essential elements of most formal and informal education practices is Information & Communications Technology (ICT). Teachers are implementing new technologies in the education process to make learning more fun and fruitful. Educational Robotics, an ICT sub field is one of these technologies and it has triggered many studies regarding its effectiveness. This paper presents our design process of a unique educational humanoid robot that can be used as a teaching aid for wide variety of subjects to children at primary schools.