Tiny humans aren’t the only ones entering a classroom for the first time in the fall.

Increasingly, robots are too.

According to Karen Panetta, dean of graduate engineering at Tufts University and editor-in-chief of IEEE WIE Magazine, artificial intelligence software and early-stage humanoid robots are playing a growing role in pre-K and kindergarten.

Over time, Panetta says, people should only expect machines’ presence to increase.

“Look at movie theaters right now,” Panetta told Business Insider. In a handful of locations around the country, Disney has been tracking audience engagement with emotion recognition software — the kind that could someday live inside an artificially-intelligent read more >>>

Source:: BusinessInsider.Com