QTrobot For Autism & SEN
An Innovative Tool To Improve The Effectiveness Of Special Needs Education
QTrobot For Autism & SEN
An Innovative Tool To Improve The Effectiveness Of Special Needs Education
QTrobot
Expressive & Engaging Robot For ASD
QTrobot is an expressive social robot designed to increase the efficiency of special need education by encouraging an active and engaged interaction and participation of children with autism and SEN.
QTrobot creates a consistent and non-overstimulating teaching environment to attract students attention for teaching and practicing a large variety of life skills. The robot for autism package offers a standard curriculum with over hundred coherent and comprehensive teaching modules for cognitive, social, communication and conversational abilities.
QTrobot
Expressive & Engaging Robot For ASD
QTrobot is an expressive social robot designed to increase the efficiency of special need education by encouraging an active and engaged interaction and participation of children and their parents.
QTrobot provides a friendly and effective setup to attract children’s attention for teaching and practicing a large variety of life skills. It offers a well-designed curriculum with over hundred coherent and comprehensive teaching modules for cognitive, social, communication and conversational abilities.
Success Stories and Testimonials
Success Stories and Testimonials
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Why Robot For Autism Works?
Using a robot for autism is inspired by autism characteristics. Children with autism often have a high interest in technology and usually have a tendency to feel more comfortable while working with it because of the rule-based and predictable nature of computers.
QTrobot as an embodied technology stands somewhere between a computer and a social being. It offers various benefits of technology such as consistency, simplicity and predictability, but it also has a character providing an engaging environment for social learning.
By being a point of joint attention between the child and educator, QTrobot can facilitate a triangular interaction to elicit positive behaviours and promote learning in children with ASD.
QTrobot
Why Robot For Autism Works
The idea of using QTrobot is inspired by autism characteristics. Children with autism often have a high interest in technology and computer systems and usually have a tendency to feel more comfortable while working with technology because of the the rule-based and predictable nature of computers.
The QTrobot’s embodiment place it somewhere between a computer and a social being. It offers various benefits of technology such as tireless repetition, simplicity, exaggeration and multi-sensory stimulation, but also QTrobot has a character and provides an engaging and social learning environment.
By being a point of joint attention between the child and educator, QTrobot can facilitate the communication among them and create a triangular interaction, making it a great assistive technology to elicit positive behaviours and promote learning in children with ASD.
benefits of using QTrobot
For Children With Autism
Attractive and motivating
QTrobot is an engaging technology which is often very attractive for the children. This results in more attention and concentration of the children and helping them to learn more effectively, specially for the activities that require shred attention.
Constant and predictable:
By showing a consistent, positive and patient attitude, QTrobot makes children feel more relaxed during interaction and education sessions. The predictable nature of QTrobot gives comfort to children and prevents them from getting distracted or overwhelmed.
Simple, exaggerated & easy to understand:
QTrobot behaves in a very simple and understandable manner. Exaggerated and clear expressions and behaviours of QTrobot help children learn easier and practice their skills in a simplified setup and gain confidence to apply them in their daily life.
Tireless and non-judgmental:
Interaction with QTrobot is free of social demands. It is nonjudgmental and never gets tired or frustrated. QTrobot repeats everything in the same manner until children master a skill, offering a coherent, constant and positive setup to practice the skills as many times as needed.
benefits of using QTrobot
For Children With Autism
Attractive and motivating
QTrobot is an engaging technology and embodied character which is often very attractive for the children. This results in more attention and concentration of the children and helping them to learn more effectively, specially for the activities that require shred attention.
Simple, exaggerated & easy to understand:
QTrobot behaves in a very simple and understandable manner. Exaggerated and clear expressions and behaviours of QTrobot help children learn easier and practice their skills in a simplified setup and gain confidence to apply them in their daily life.
Constant and predictable:
By showing a consistent, positive and patient attitude, QTrobot makes children feel more relaxed during interaction and education sessions. The predictable nature of QTrobot gives comfort to children and prevents them from getting distracted or overwhelmed.
Tireless and non-judgmental:
QTrobot is nonjudgmental and never gets tired or frustrated. QTrobot repeats everything in the same manner until children master a skill, offering a coherent, constant and positive setup to practice the skills as many times as needed.
QTrobot
Increases The Effectiveness Of The Autism Training!
Scientific research shows that when QTrobot is used in educational sessions, children have better engagement and less disruptive and stereotypical behaviors, compared to the sessions conducted by an educator alone.
The increased attention and reduced anxiety can improve learning outcomes for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Overall percentage of time looking
Number of chains of stereotypical behaviors/minute
Average Duration of each gaze
Frequency of stereotypical behaviors/minute
QTrobot
Increases The Effectiveness Of The Autism Training!
Overall percentage of time looking
toward QTrobot vs toward person
Average duration of each gaze
toward QTrobot vs toward person
Number of chains of stereotypical behaviors/minute
in front of QTrobot vs in front of person
Frequency of stereotypical behaviors/minute
in front of QTrobot vs in front of personScientific research shows that when QTrobot is used in educational sessions, children have better engagement and less disruptive and stereotypical behaviors, compared to the sessions conducted by an educator alone.
The increased attention and reduced anxiety can improve learning outcomes for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
benefits of using QTrobot
For Therapists And Special Need Educators
Higher engagement, better uptake:
Learning starts with engagement. Frequent distractions prohibit children from learning and make the job of educators more challenging. QTrobot works as a mediator to enhance the engagement of children, offering more opportunity for teaching new skills. Consequently, QTrobot can enhance the outcome of teaching into faster progress in the children’s skills.
Less challenge, higher pay off:
Special needs education often requires frequent repetition of the content. QTrobot can help educators to deliver standard and high quality sessions by taking over the repetition of teaching activities. Delegating the administration of sessions to QTrobot allows educators to save effort and focus their energy on objective planning, progress monitoring and generalization of the skills.
Less paperwork, more interaction:
Educators need to allocate attention to data recording during sessions and then have to spend a lot of time analyzing the data and completing reports. QTrobot reduces this time-consuming paperwork by automating the creation of session reports and analytics. This saves the educators’ effort and allows them to direct their full attention during teaching to the children.
Easy adaptation to your way of practice:
QTrobot is a flexible solution that can be easily customized and adapted to the way that autism professionals work. Using its non-technical graphical interface, educators can easily create new programs and educational content for QTrobot to adapt it to the teaching methodologies they know to be effective for children. QTrobot graphical interface is programmable by everyone!
benefits of using QTrobot
For Therapists And Special Need Educators
Higher engagement, better uptake:
Learning starts with engagement. Frequent distractions prohibit children from learning and make the job of educators more challenging. QTrobot works as a mediator to enhance the engagement of children, offering more opportunity for teaching new skills. Consequently, QTrobot can enhance the outcome of teaching into faster progress in the children’s skills.
Less paperwork, more interaction with children:
Educators need to allocate attention to data recording during sessions and then have to spend a lot of time analyzing the data and completing reports. QTrobot reduces this time-consuming paperwork by automating the creation of session reports and analytics. This saves the educators’ effort and allows them to direct their full attention during teaching to the children.
Less challenge, higher pay off:
Special needs education often requires frequent repetition of the content. QTrobot can help educators to deliver standard and high quality sessions by taking over the repetition of teaching activities. Delegating the administration of sessions to QTrobot allows educators to save effort and focus their energy on objective planning, progress monitoring and generalization of the skills.
Easy adaptation, no need to modify the way you practice:
QTrobot is a flexible solution that can be easily customized and adapted to the way that autism professionals work. Using its non-technical graphical interface, educators can easily create new programs and educational content for QTrobot to adapt it to the teaching methodologies they know to be effective for children. QTrobot graphical interface is programmable by everyone!
What’s Inside
The Package For Autism & SEN
- QTrobot x 1
- Tablet x 2
- Default curriculum bundle
- Professional training for users
- QTrobot content store
- Update and Warranty
Expressive humanoid QTrobot – teaching version
Tablets come with preinstalled applications:
Educator app: Allowing teachers and therapists to run educational lessons with QTrobot, control the robot behaviors during the interaction with the learner and to access the learner profile, reporting and progress monitoring
learner app: Allowing the students to receive visual stimuli and visual support and to play image-based activities with the robot.
Watch a demo of the tablet apps function during an education session!
Lessons developed for students with autism, covering:
- Emotional Ability Training: This curriculum targets emotion related skills including imitating emotions, recognizing emotions, labeling emotions, understanding emotions, and controlling emotions
- Early Stage Development Curriculum: This curriculum is developed based on early age developmental milestones, targeting the first 48 months of child development. Covering a variety of language development, social skills and cognitive skills, this curriculum can be used for a large group of students with ASD and special needs education.
Download the outline of the curricula here!
To ensure the successful implementation of QTrobot in schools and special need education centers, we offer a comprehensive on demand professional trainings. The implementation includes a video kick-off call and a follow session and on demand video trainings.
Learn more about the implementation support here!
Access to QTrobot teaching content store
1-year warranty
2-years software updates
What’s Inside
The Package For Autism & SEN
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Expressive humanoid QTrobot – teaching version
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Tablets come with preinstalled applications:
Educator app: Allowing teachers and therapists to run educational lessons with QTrobot, control the robot behaviors during the interaction with the learner and to access the learner profile, reporting and progress monitoring
learner app: Allowing the students to receive visual stimuli and visual support and to play image-based activities with the robot.
Watch a demo of the tablet apps function during an education session!
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Lessons developed for students with autism, covering:
- Emotional Ability Training: This curriculum targets emotion related skills including imitating emotions, recognizing emotions, labeling emotions, understanding emotions, and controlling emotions
- Early Stage Development Curriculum: This curriculum is developed based on early age developmental milestones, targeting the first 48 months of child development. Covering a variety of language development, social skills and cognitive skills, this curriculum can be used for a large group of students with ASD and special needs education.
Download the outline of the curricula here!
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To ensure the successful implementation of QTrobot in schools and special need education centers, we offer a comprehensive on demand professional trainings. The implementation includes a video kick-off call and a follow session and on demand video trainings.
Learn more about the implementation support here!
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Access to QTrobot teaching content store
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1 year warranty
2-years software updates
How long will it take to
Set up QTrobot
QTrobot is truly a plug & play solution and has been designed to be extremely easy to use for non-technical users such as therapists, teachers and special need educators.
From receiving the box to conducting the first educational session with a student, it takes literally a few minutes! Using QTrobot is as easy as using your smartphone.
From unboxing QTrobot to conducting the 1st educational session
How long will it take to
Set up QTrobot
From receiving the box to conducting the first educational session with a student, it takes literally a few minutes! Using QTrobot is as easy as using your smart phone and the QTrobot app is intuitive to immediately start working with.
QTrobot is truly a plug & play solution and has been designed to be extremely easy to use for non-technical users such as therapists, teachers and special need educators. To use QTrobot, you’ll just need an electricity plug and an active subscription to our QTrobot for School Plan. Internet is not required for using the QTrobot, only the QTrobot tablet needs to be connected to the Internet once a month to benefit from updates and the reporting and analytics dashboard.
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Educational Curriculum for Autism & Special Needs Education
QTrobot comes with a set of comprehensive educational curricula covering various topics on emotional, social, cognitive and language skills and targeting the various developmental ages of children.
The curricula are designed by autism specialists through several years of research and development and using evidence-based methodologies.
QTrobot for autism is also fully programable by therapists and educators and you will be able to create your own custom-made lessons.
Discover the topics covered!
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Educational Content for Autism and Special Needs Education
QTrobot comes with a set of comprehensive educational curricula covering various topics on emotional, social, cognitive and language skills and targeting the various developmental ages of children.
The curricula are designed by autism specialists through several years of research and development and using evidence-based methodologies.
While we are constantly growing the QTrobot by adding new curriculums, schools can also easily and quickly create their own curriculums without needing any IT knowledge, and customize their QTrobot to unique needs of the children.
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Trainer Tablet Interface
QTrobot has an intuitive tablet interface for educators to easily choose educational sessions and control the robot during teaching.
During the interaction with learners, the interface provides a step by step guide to educators by showing them several options they can choose to lead the session. These options allow the educators to choose the difficulty of a session, to choose the best response to the learner’s behaviour and to provide the best feedback or reinforcement.
The straightforward and easy to use nature of the interface allows educators to instantly learn how to use QTrobot without any learning curve.
QTrobot
Trainer Tablet Interface
QTrobot has an intuitive tablet interface for educators to easily choose educational sessions and control the QTrobot during teaching.
During the interaction with learners, the interface provides an step by step guide to educators by showing them several options on the tablet they can chose to customize and control the session. These options allows to the educators to choose the difficulty of a session, to choose the best response to the learner’s behavior and to provide the best feedback or reinforcement.
The straightforward and easy to use nature of the interface allows educators to instantly learn how to use and integrate QTrobot for their work without any learning curve.
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Learner Tablet Interface
The learner tablet interface of QTrobot is used during the interaction to show visual supports. This helps learners with ASD to better understand the context of the lessons. It also allows learners to play a variety of interactive games using cards and images.
The tablet interface also provides opportunities for children with limited verbal communication capabilities to be able to interact with and respond to QTrobot.
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Learner Tablet Interface
The learner tablet interface of QTrobot is used during the interaction to show visual supports. This helps learners with ASD to better understand the context of the lessons. It also allows learners to play a variety of interactive games using cards and images.
The tablet interface also provides opportunities for children with limited verbal communication capabilities to be able to interact with and respond to QTrobot.
Both the trainer and learner tablets are seamlessly connected to the QTrobot Wifi hotspot and are included in the QTrobot package.
Is QTrobot
Robust to be used with children
QTrobot is designed to be a very robust platform for daily use with learners with autism and SEN. The robot is equipped with protection mechanisms supporting the internal parts and joints, enabling QTrobot to resist pressure in the opposite direction of the joint movements.
Also, our robot for autism package includes a stand for fixing the robot on the table to avoid any chance of falling down due to a learner pushing the robot.
NOTE: based on our safety guidelines QTrobot should not be used without adult supervision and the learner should not be sitting closer than 70 cm to the robot.
Is QTrobot
Robust to be used with children
QTrobot has been designed to be a very robust platform by having metal structure and motor gears and using protective engineering techniques. QTrobot can be used all day long without encountering any heating problem or performance issue. In addition, the QTrobot package includes a stand which you can use to make QTrobot stable on the table and avoid any chances of it falling down.
* PLEASE NOTE that QTrobot must be always used under the supervision of an adult and placed with the safety distance of 70cm from the learner and the educator to avoid any potential harm to the human and the robot. Please always use QTrobot following its safety instruction provided in its package.