TIME announced its annual list of the Best Inventions that are making the world better, smarter, and even a bit more fun. Roybi Robot from ROYBI INC checked all of those boxes, earning a prestigious place on the 2019 list of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2019 in the Education category. “It’s a surreal experience seeing little Roybi Robot on the cover of TIME,” said Founder and CEO, Elnaz Sarraf. “I am beyond thrilled and deeply humbled that ROYBI was recognized on the list for our educational robot. More importantly, I’m looking forward to the future, bringing high quality and accessible, personalized education to children everywhere.” To assemble their list, TIME solicited nominations across a variety of categories from editors and correspondents around the world....
We are deeply honored to share that ROYBI has been named to The Upstart 100 by CNBC as one of the world’s most promising start-ups to watch in 2019. “The Upstart 100 is CNBC’s exclusive list of promising young start-ups, featuring a diverse group of companies that are building brands and breaking industry barriers on the path to becoming tomorrow’s household names.” The 2019 Upstart 100 list features young start-ups that are creating businesses and solutions to meet the ever-changing demands of the technological age we’re living in today. ROYBI was chosen out of an astounding 600 global nominees and is the only EdTech company to make this select list. Congratulations to the ROYBI team! We’ve accomplished so much in just two short years....
According to a recent study at Ohio State University, “Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to.” This lack of reading is the premise of “The Million Word Gap,” which explains why children who aren’t read to daily are more likely to fall behind not only in academics but in life as well. In fact, the same study found that children, “who are read only one book a day will hear about 290,000 more words by age 5 than those who don’t regularly read books with a parent or caregiver.” Reading and being read to increases a child’s “heard vocabulary”—or the new words...
Many parents are skeptical of artificial intelligence interacting with their children. They are wary of robots “having minds of their own.” However, kids interacting with social learning robot toys can bring about positive implications that they probably haven’t considered. Here are five ways AI can benefit your children. AI can spark an interest in sciences and technology Showing children the different types of technology may spark an interest in STEM, especially if it’s interactive. This interest can pave the way for them to pursue coding, computer science, or engineering. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM subjects) are widely used and are the foundations of the industrial and corporate worlds. Robotics and AI will undoubtedly be commonly used in the future, so...
Social robots and artificial intelligence have the power to become a catalyst for change on a massive scale. They can change how our society functions as a whole. So how do we utilize this power to help us in our daily lives without allowing these robots to become invasive? There has always been skepticism against artificial intelligence ever since robots started performing tasks that have been historically done by humans. Robots have been used in performing surgeries, creating automobiles, as well as caregiving. Despite all of the help these robots could provide for us, they are still almost seen as a threat. Common doubts stem from the fact that they could potentially take many people’s jobs. This possible issue raises...
