Buddy: a fun, educational robot supporting autism

Equipped with a suite of applications dedicated to neurodevelopmental disorders and many settings, Buddy the educational robot supporting autism, is fully customizable. It supports teachers and students in acquiring and developing social and emotional skills, social abilities, learning new content, language and motor skills.

ChatGPT

Applications for TND

Personalized content

Telepresence

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Buddy the educational robot supporting autism: an alliance between technology and pedagogy

More than just a robot, Buddy, the educational robot supporting autism, is an interactive, empathetic, and engaging learning companion. Indeed, it combines artificial intelligence with emotional skills, so that it can offer unique and personalized educational experiences. Moreover, thanks to its rounded and soothing design, Buddy provides the advantage of being predictable and consistent, which means it is easily accepted by autistic children. Consequently, they perceive Buddy not only as a companion, but also as a unique reinforcer. In addition, each interaction supports learning, social development, and emotional growth, thereby creating a safe and encouraging environment for children with autism.

Telepresence

+ Maintaining remote connection.

+ Hospitalized children.

+ School phobia.

+ Mediating avatar.

Learning

+ Emotion management.

+ Motor skills work.

+ Encoding tasks.

+ Customizable settings.

Reinforcer

+ Stroke sensors

+ LED lighting

+ Emotional behaviors

+ Predictable & reassuring companion

CHAT GPT

+ Prompt adapted to cognitive age

+ Interactive emotional companion

+ Work on social abilities

+ Personalization of exchanges

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Buddy uses ChatGPT intelligently!

ChatGPT allow to create tailor‑made prompts for your users, so that Buddy, the educational robot supporting autism, can adapt perfectly to each learner’s needs. For instance, you can ask Buddy to use simple or complex vocabulary, while also adjusting its speech to the cognitive age of its interlocutor. Moreover, Buddy can offer social skills exercises, general knowledge quizzes, role-playing games, create personalized rituals, and even many other activities, thereby supporting a wide range of learning objectives. In addition, users can engage in simple conversations or verbalization exercises, which helps reinforce communication skills, social interaction, and emotional understanding in a safe and engaging way.

Our applications for neurodevelopmental disorders

A suite of applications has been specifically designed for children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders, making Buddy the educational robot supporting autism a versatile and engaging learning companion. Indeed, with these tools, it is possible to work on classic encoding tasks, while also learning to recognize and express emotions, practice verbalization, develop fine motor skills, and even create personalized quizzes.

Moreover, these applications are designed to be accessible to everyone: interaction with the robot can be performed by voice, touch, or through customizable cards. Consequently, Buddy contributes not only to strengthening social ties and developing autonomy, but also to promoting participation in group activities, thanks to games that act as meaningful reinforcers. In this way, every session becomes a structured, enjoyable, and supportive learning experience for children with autism.

Buddy, the avatar for children unable to attend

Buddy positions itself as a caring ally for children prevented from attending school because of illness, disability or school phobia.

Using the telepresence system, Buddy becomes the avatar of these children and allows them to continue their schooling and maintain social ties with their classmates. Whith a tablet or smartphone, the child controls the robot remotely.

Thanks to the Ministry of National Education, hundreds of children have already benefited from this system. Some associations have also adopted the solution to allow families to maintain a connection with their sick child

“Buddy helps break the isolation of these pupils and gives them a breath of fresh air in daily lives disrupted by illness or an accident.”

Olivier Dugrip

Rector of the Auvergne‑Rhône‑Alpes educational region.

Creation of personalized content

Among Buddy, you can create a multitude of personalized educational content.

Buddy Studio editor is a fun support to create exercises, display images and videos, energize a lesson, explain concepts, play behaviors, recite a lesson, give advice, create rituals, conditional scenarios, interactive stories or quizzes. This editor allows you to design scenarios online from your PC and send them remotely to your robot. You can also create quizzes with the Carte Blanche application by customizing the provided cards. Buddy can then question its users and ask them to show it specific content present on one or another of its cards.

Our suite of applications tailored for educational robot supporting autism

Buddy with his innovative designed, make learning accessible, engaging, and inclusive. Discover Buddy’s application suite dédicate for students, teachers, and educational institutions.