{"id":4613,"date":"2025-09-23T21:07:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tuscanyhealthecosystem.it\/innovation-enters-the-classroom-in-tuscany-robots-as-tools-for-learning-and-research\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T21:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:22:51","slug":"innovation-enters-the-classroom-in-tuscany-robots-as-tools-for-learning-and-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tuscanyhealthecosystem.it\/en\/innovation-enters-the-classroom-in-tuscany-robots-as-tools-for-learning-and-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation enters the classroom in Tuscany: robots as tools for learning and research"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4613\" class=\"elementor elementor-4613 elementor-4599\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-607f7087 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"607f7087\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d9bac38 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d9bac38\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Robots have entered schools.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e7fbd0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6e7fbd0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Prof.<\/span><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\"> Filippo Cavallo<\/span> <span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">and Prof. <\/span><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Laura Fiorini<\/span> <span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">of<\/span><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\"> the University of Florence,<\/span><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\"> in collaboration with<\/span> <span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Tuscany Health Ecosystem,<\/span> <span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">conducted a project in three Tuscan primary schools involving over 100 children in a unique activity: interaction with anthropomorphic social robots<\/span><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\"> (NAO).<\/span><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">. An initiative that demonstrates how robotic technology can be integrated into education, offering new tools for training and research, in particular<\/span> in the study of learning and training mechanisms, with a specific focus on children with cognitive difficulties.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-718c3fb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"718c3fb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>The use of humanoid robots creates empathy with children and supports the study of attention and stress during school activities. <br>In this case, the children were asked to tell a story to the Nao robot, and analysis of the operation allowed us to measure objective parameters of interaction such as gaze direction, verbal fluency, and body movement. This allowed us to evaluate the interaction objectively, but also to identify biomarkers of cognitive development level.  <\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c58bd43 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c58bd43\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>The video of the interview is available here on the channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KsaVtFUtLqI?si=sumcXL4fBkmizhZe\">YouTube by THE &#8211; Tuscany Health Ecosystem<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots have entered schools. Prof. Filippo Cavallo and Prof. Laura Fiorini of the University of Florence, in collaboration with Tuscany Health Ecosystem, conducted a project in three Tuscan primary schools involving over 100 children in a unique activity: interaction with anthropomorphic social robots (NAO).. An initiative that demonstrates how robotic technology can be integrated into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-4613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-radiomedicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyhealthecosystem.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyhealthecosystem.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyhealthecosystem.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyhealthecosystem.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyhealthecosystem.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyhealthecosystem.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4614,"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyhealthecosystem.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions\/4614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyhealthecosystem.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyhealthecosystem.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyhealthecosystem.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyhealthecosystem.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}