{
  "id": 17493,
  "url": "https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2026.1812453",
  "title": "Gender and diagnostic differences in children’s preferences for social robot design. A mixed-methods study with autistic and neurotypical children",
  "summary": "IntroductionAutistic children are increasingly engaging with social robots in educational and support contexts, but limited research has compared the perceptual and design preferences of autistic and neurotypical children.MethodsThis mixed-methods study examined the robot design preferences of 43 children aged 3–15 years, including 21 autistic and 22 neurotypical children, and included semi-structured interviews with 11 adult stakeholders, comprising six experts and five non-experts. Quantitativ",
  "authors": "Gema Benedicto Rodríguez",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "healthcare,children-education,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-08T05:10:34.355Z",
  "source_slug": "x-frontiers-in-robotics-and-ai",
  "source_name": "Frontiers in Robotics and AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/robotics-and-ai",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17493",
  "original_url": "https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2026.1812453",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}