I am QTrobot,
Robot teacher for children with autism
QTROBOT
Expressive & Engaging Robot For ASD
QTrobot is an expressive social robot designed to increase the efficiency of special needs education by encouraging an active and engaged interaction between 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 one hundred coherent and comprehensive teaching modules for cognitive, social, communication and conversational abilities.
QTROBOT
Expressive & Engaging Robot For Autism
QTrobot is an expressive social robot designed to increase the efficiency of special needs education by encouraging an active and engaged interaction between 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 one hundred coherent and comprehensive teaching modules for cognitive, social, communication and conversational abilities.
As seen on
“According to scientists, the adorable QTrobot decreases the anxiety of autistic children.”
” QTrobot takes some pressure off of parents and aids in keeping children with autism engaged in learning.”
“A little bot named QTrobot could be the link between therapists, parents, and autistic children. “
“It presents itself a better option than using a tablet or an app because the robot itself looks like another person.”
As seen on
QTrobot
supports the development of :
QTrobot emotional skills curriculum includes 18 teaching units focusing on abilities related to emotion recognition, emotion understanding and emotion regulation, allowing the learners to practice emotional skills in a simplified manner.
QTrobot social skills curriculum includes 25 teaching units targeting the practicing of a variety of social skills in an engaging and step by step manner. It covers topics related to greeting, initiating simple conversation, maintaining a conversation, closing a conversation and coping with teasing.
QTrobot Early Stage Development curriculum includes 100 teaching units focusing on skills related to the early age development of children. It covers practicing a variety of skills related to social, cognitive and language development for developmental age of up to 48 months.
QTrobot supports the development of :
Emotional Skills
QTrobot emotional skills curriculum includes 18 teaching units focusing on abilities related to emotion recognition, emotion understanding and emotion regulation, allowing the learners to practice emotional skills in a simplified manner.
Social Skills
QTrobot social skills curriculum includes 25 teaching units targeting a variety of social skills in an engaging and step by step manner. It covers topics related to greeting, initiating simple conversation, maintaining a conversation, closing a conversation and coping with teasing.
Early Stage Development
QTrobot Early Stage Development curriculum includes 100 teaching units focusing on skills related to the early age development of children. It covers practising a variety of skills related to social, cognitive and language development for the developmental age of up to 48 months.
benefits of using QTrobot
For Children With Autism
Engaging and motivating
QTrobot as an embodied technology can be very engaging for children. This results in more attention and concentration from the children and helps them to learn more effectively, especially for the activities that require shared 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 to understand:
QTrobot behaves in a very simple 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:
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.
benefits of using QTrobot
For Children With Autism
Engaging and motivating
QTrobot as an embodied technology can be very engaging for children. This results in more attention and concentration from the children and helps them to learn more effectively, especially for the activities that require shared 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
Scientific Background
QTrobot is designed based on scientific approaches to autism and special needs education. Scientific and empirical studies show QTrobot can improve the attention of learners with ASD, help them to be more engaged in educational sessions, and that children represent less anxiety and stereotypical behaviours when sessions are offered by QTrobot comparing to when interacting with a person.
QTrobot
Scientific Background
QTrobot is designed based on scientific approaches to autism and special needs education. Scientific and empirical studies show QTrobot can improve the attention of learners with ASD, help them to be more engaged in educational sessions, and that children represent less anxiety and stereotypical behaviours when sessions are offered by QTrobot comparing to when interacting with a person.
After working with QTrobot my child understands emotions better
QTrobot helped my son to better understand his own emotions and emotions of others and helped him to talk more comfortably about his feelings.
Solveig, Mother of a 13 years old boy with Asperger syndrome
QTrobot taught Ellie how to understand and categorize his emotions
“Ellie was always enthusiastic to work with QTrobot. QTrobot taught him about the color of emotions, like anger, sadness, joy or fear. It was very important for him to categorize emotions. Now he says I feel green, which means everything is great.”
Isabelle, Mother of a 7 years old boy with ASD
QTrobot has a friendly face but at the same time it always makes Nathan work
“It is very interesting that QTrobot has these small expressions. It is always smiling and when it is not happy, it just frowns. This is very easy to understand for Nathan.”
Mother of an 8 years old boy with autism
After working with QTrobot my child understands emotions better
QTrobot helped my son to better understand his own emotions and emotions of others and helped him to talk more comfortably about his feelings.
Solveig, Mother of a 13 years old boy with Asperger syndrome
QTrobot taught Ellie how to understand and categorize his emotions
“Ellie was always enthusiastic to work with QTrobot. QTrobot taught him about the color of emotions, like anger, sadness, joy or fear. It was very important for him to categorize emotions. Now he says I feel green, which means everything is great.”
Isabelle, Mother of a 7 years old boy with ASD
QTrobot has a friendly face but at the same time it always makes Nathan work
“It is very interesting that QTrobot has these small expressions. It is always smiling and when it is not happy, it just frowns. This is very easy to understand for Nathan.”
Mother of an 8 years old boy with autism
QTrobot for home
Bundle Subscription Includes:
- 1 x QTrobot
- 2 x tablet
- Default curriculum bundle
- Parent training
- Monthly follow up sessions
- 2 years warranty
- Access to LuxAI curriculum store
- Progress monitoring dashboard
- 30 days at home trial
QTrobot device for home
Tablets come with pre-installed apps for:
- Parents: to run the educational sessions and control the QTrobot during the sessions
- Child: To receive visual stimuli and support and to play image-based games with QTrobot as part of the educational sessions
The QTrobot for Home bundle includes 12-months subscription to LuxAI Default Curriculum Bundle, consisting of:
- QTrobot Emotional Skills curriculum
- QTrobot Early Stage Development curriculum
These curricula include 100 teaching units on cognitive, social and language skills for developmental age of up to 4 years and 18 units on emotional skills.
The subscription can be canceled after 12 months, however note that use of QTrobot requires an active subscription to LuxAI Default Curriculum Bundle or other curriculum packages offered in the LuxAI Curriculum Store.
Online training tutorials designed to help you with
- choosing educational units of QTrobot based on your child’s educational needs
- supporting your child during the interaction with QTrobot to obtain success
- extracurricular activities to facilitate learning and generalization of skills
Monthly meeting with LuxAI special need education team to answer your questions and supporting you to benefit the most from using QTrobot
LuxAI S.A. warrants that your QTrobot will be free from defects of material and workmanship under normal use and service for a duration of 2 years after initial delivery date. During the warranty period, you will not be charged for the reparation or replacement of defective parts.
In case of the warranty service, you send your QTrobot to us and we will send it back to you repaired at our own costs.
Please see our Terms and Conditions for details.
The QTrobot curriculum store provides different curriculums you can subscribe to. It currently included the LuxAI Default Curriculum Bundle, (Early Stage Development and Emotional Skills) as well as the Social Skills curriculum.
We love to create content for the children and plan to regularly extend the QTrobot with new teaching modules.
A dashboard with real-time insights into your child’s educational activities with QTrobot, so you can gain a comprehensive overview of the achieved learning goals, see the upcoming educational units and monitor the progress.
Try QTrobot at home for 30 days. If you and your child don’t love QTrobot, just contact us within 30 days of receiving your robot and we’ll provide you with a full refund except for the costs of shipping you the QTrobot. The refund is also conditioned on that we receive back the QTrobot no later than 50 days from its initial delivery date to you.
Please see our Terms and Conditions for details.
QTrobot for home
Bundle Subscription Includes:
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QTrobot device, home version
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Tablets come with pre-installed apps for:
- Parents: to run the educational sessions and control the QTrobot during the sessions
- Child: To receive visual stimuli and support and to play image-based games with QTrobot as part of the educational sessions
-
The QTrobot for Home bundle includes 12-months subscription to LuxAI Default Curriculum Bundle, consisting of:
- QTrobot Emotional Skills curriculum
- QTrobot Early Stage Development curriculum
These curricula include 100 teaching units on cognitive, social and language skills for developmental age of up to 4 years and 18 units on emotional skills.
The subscription can be canceled after 12 months, however note that use of QTrobot requires an active subscription to LuxAI Default Curriculum Bundle or other curriculum packages offered in the LuxAI Curriculum Store.
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Online training tutorials designed to help you with
- choosing educational units of QTrobot based on your child’s educational needs
- supporting your child during the interaction with QTrobot to obtain success
- extracurricular activities to facilitate learning and generalization of skills
-
Monthly meeting with LuxAI special need education team to answer your questions and supporting you to benefit the most from using QTrobot
-
LuxAI S.A. warrants that your QTrobot will be free from defects of material and workmanship under normal use and service for a duration of 2 years after initial delivery date. During the warranty period, you will not be charged for the reparation or replacement of defective parts.
In case of the warranty service, you send your QTrobot to us and we will send it back to you repaired at our own costs.
Please see our Terms and Conditions for details.
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The QTrobot curriculum store provides different curriculums you can subscribe to. It currently included the LuxAI Default Curriculum Bundle, (Early Stage Development and Emotional Skills) as well as the Social Skills curriculum.
We love to create content for the children and plan to regularly extend the QTrobot with new teaching modules.
-
A dashboard with real-time insights into your child’s educational activities with QTrobot, so you can gain a comprehensive overview of the achieved learning goals, see the upcoming educational units and monitor the progress.
-
Try QTrobot at home for 30 days. If you and your child don’t love QTrobot, just contact us within 30 days of receiving your robot and we’ll provide you with a full refund except for the costs of shipping you the QTrobot. The refund is also conditioned on that we receive back the QTrobot no later than 50 days from its initial delivery date to you.
Please see our Terms and Conditions for details.
QTrobot for home
Requirements & Subscription Plan
QTrobot is truly a plug & play solution. Using QTrobot is as easy as using your smartphone. From unboxing QTrobot to have your first session, it literally takes a few minutes!
To use QTrobot, you’ll just need an electricity plug and an active subscription to QTrobot for Home Plan.
QTrobot for home subscription includes a kick-off call to ensure you are very comfortable in using the robot and in identifying the initial starting point in the educational curriculum. It also includes monthly support meetings to evaluate the progress and to help you to choose new lessons.
From unboxing QTrobot to starting the 1st educational session with learners
From unboxing QTrobot to starting the 1st educational session with learners
QTrobot for home
Requirements & Subscription Plan
QTrobot is truly a plug & play solution. To use QTrobot, you’ll just need an electricity plug and an active subscription to our QTrobot for Home Plan. Using QTrobot is as easy as using your smartphone and the QTrobot app is intuitive to immediately start working with. However, we offer you a kick-off call to present QTrobot and its app and answer any questions you may have.
QTrobot subscription plan for parents provides a great value, providing you with the latest version of QTrobot Default Curriculum, access to QTrobot reporting dashboard where you can see the summary of the QTrobot sessions and their results, and an optional monthly meeting with LuxAI Special Need support team to help you benefit from your QTrobot the most.
QTrobot implementation and support
For parents of children with autism
QTrobot parent training and implementation support
Our comprehensive support plan offers parents to ensure the successful implementation of QTrobot for home, and to maximize the benefits for their child
- Initial educational assessment of the child and helping the parents to identify lessons that correspond to the child’s educational needs and the individual educational plan (IEP) defined by the child’s school
- Comprehensive parent training video materials for parents to learn how to navigate through the educational curricula, how to analyse the child’s progress from the reporting dashboard, how to actively contribute in the educational sessions with QTrobot and to facilitate the generalization of the learnt skills to the natural environment of the child
- Monthly follow up session with LuxAI special need education team to review the progress and brainstorm the upcoming educational sessions and teaching plan
Parent Training Video Content Covers:
How QTrobot teaches new skills to children?
The first session of the parent training is dedicated to explaining how QTrobot teaches various skills to children with autism and special need education. We will review various curricula, how they are built and what type of activities are covered by each educational module. We will review how QTrobot asks questions, how it plays educational activities and how it supports the child to acquire new skills by playing these interactive games.
How to choose a lesson from the QTrobot educational curricula that meets your child’s needs?
QTrobot comes with pre-installed educational curricula, each one of them geared toward a specific set of skills. Also each of the educational modules are designed for a certain developmental age and have pre-requirement skills. In this session we provide you with methods and tools that can help you to choose educational sessions that can meet your child’s developmental age and educational needs.
How to have an active role in the educational session with QTrobot?
The main goal of QTrobot is to help the child to more socially interactive and more autonomous. That’s why in QTrobot educational sessions there is a big focus on generalization of the learnt skills from the interaction with the robot to the interaction to the natural environment of the child and to the social communication with other people.
In this session, we support you to learn how to play an active and productive role in the educational sessions, and how to further support your child in achieving success in social, communicational and autonomy level in the natural life settings.
When and how often to use QTrobot and when not to use it?
Similar to any type of assistive educational tool, QTrobot can impact a child’s capabilities when it is used frequently and persistently.
In this session we support you to define the most practical frequency of use that meets your child’s unique potential and we will give you some general roles as well as dos and don’ts that can impact the learning potential of your child.
QTrobot implementation and support
For parents of children with autism
QTrobot parent training and implementation support
Our comprehensive support plan offers parents to ensure the successful implementation of QTrobot for home, and to maximize the benefits for their child
- Initial educational assessment of the child and helping the parents to identify lessons that correspond to the child’s educational needs and the individual educational plan (IEP) defined by the child’s school.
- Comprehensive parent training video materials for parents to learn how to navigate through the educational curricula, how to analyse the child’s progress from the reporting dashboard, how to actively contribute in the educational sessions with QTrobot and to facilitate the generalization of the learnt skills to the natural environment of the child. Parent training video content covers:
- Session 1: How QTrobot teaches new skills to children
- Session 2: How to choose a lesson from the QTrobot educational curricula that meets your child’s needs
- Session 3: How to have an active role in the educational session with QTrobot
- Session 4: When and how often to use QTrobot and when not to use it?
- Monthly follow up session with LuxAI special need education team to review the progress and brainstorm the upcoming educational sessions and teaching plan.
Can QTrobot help your child?
If you are interested to know more about how QTrobot can help your child and if you are wondering how the educational lessons of QTrobot can fit your child’s developmental age and educational needs, book a free consultation session with our education specialists!
Can QTrobot help your child?
If you are interested to know more about how QTrobot can help your child and if you are wondering how the educational lessons of QTrobot can fit your child’s developmental age and educational needs, book a free consultation session with our education specialists!
Frequently Asked Questions
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- Increasing the attention and engagement of children during the session.
- Proving a controlled and simplified environment for learning.
- Providing frequent, constant repetition.
- Generalization of skills for application in daily lives of children.
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The primary objective of a training is to help the children generalize the skills learnt from the robot to their day-to-day interactions in real life.
The embodiment is a key factor in social interaction and engagement. In contrast to computers and tablets, the physical and embodied nature of QTrobot allows expressing personality through body language as well as by voice and facial expressions. This makes QTrobot more engaging, and better suited to teach and practice social concepts and makes it easier generalize the learn skills to real-world interaction.
Furthermore, having a humanoid body allows QTrobot to teach social concepts, such as eye gaze, personal distance and imitation to children in a tangible way which is not possible to teach using a computer screen or a tablet.
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No. Supporting children with ASD requires interventions from a team of specialized therapists and educators. QTrobot is an educational tool which aims to improve the experience of children, their parents and therapists. QTrobot is meant to, on one hand, increase the efficiency and quality of the educational sessions, and on the other hand, improve the accessibility of special need education for further training and practice at home.
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Not at all! QTrobot is extremely easy to use!
QTrobot is designed specifically to be used by non-technical users, such as parents, teachers and therapists.
Anyone who is able to use a smartphone can learn how to use QTrobot in a matter of few minutes.
Here is a short video of unboxing QTrobot to conducting the first educational session!
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Yes, QTrobot comes with different sets of educational curricula, focusing on early stage development, social skills, communication and emotional abilities. You can immediately start your child’s education by choosing the lessons from the available curricula.
Furthermore QTrobot educational content is growing consistently and as the time passes more educational modules will be added to the available pre-programmed content.
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QTrobot for home comes with a placement quiz, a set of questionnaires for parents to identify where your child stands in terms of social, language development, cognitive and emotional skills in relation to the QTrobot educational curricula to help choosing the right teaching units based on your child’s needs and level of progress.
Furthermore, in order to ensure the best practice implementation, LuxAI will assign you a specialist in child education that will monitor your child progress and through monthly meetings can support you to define the educational goals and identify the lessons that corresponds to the defined goals.
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No. QTrobot doesn’t need an internet connection to function.
QTrobot has an internal router that enables it to connect to the learner and the parent tablets independent of external internet connection.
However, to have access to the reporting and progress monitoring dashboard, or to get the latest updates you need to connect the parent tablet to the internet from time to time.
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The benefits of QTrobot are not limited only to children with autism spectrum disorder. A simple and engaging teaching environment, possibility of tireless and constant repetition, and opportunity to practice social and emotional skills in a controlled and gamified environment can benefits many children!
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QTrobot package for home includes 30 day No Questions Asked Return Policy. In these 30 days, you can use QTrobot and evaluate if it can be a good tool for your child’s unique needs and preferences.
If you decided that QTrobot doesn’t meet your expectation, you can inform us within 30 days of receiving QTrobot to send back the QTrobot to us and get the full refund, expect for the costs of shipment.
Frequently Asked Questions
-
- Increasing the attention and engagement of children during the session.
- Proving a controlled and simplified environment for learning.
- Providing frequent, constant repetition.
- Generalization of skills for application in daily lives of children.
-
The primary objective of a training is to help the children generalize the skills learnt from the robot to their day-to-day interactions in real life.
The embodiment is a key factor in social interaction and engagement. In contrast to computers and tablets, the physical and embodied nature of QTrobot allows expressing personality through body language as well as by voice and facial expressions. This makes QTrobot more engaging, and better suited to teach and practice social concepts and makes it easier generalize the learn skills to real-world interaction.
Furthermore, having a humanoid body allows QTrobot to teach social concepts, such as eye gaze, personal distance and imitation to children in a tangible way which is not possible to teach using a computer screen or a tablet.
-
No. Supporting children with ASD requires interventions from a team of specialized therapists and educators. QTrobot is an educational tool which aims to improve the experience of children, their parents and therapists. QTrobot is meant to, on one hand, increase the efficiency and quality of the educational sessions, and on the other hand, improve the accessibility of special need education for further training and practice at home.
QTrobot is meant to, on one hand, increase the efficiency and quality of the educational sessions, and on the other hand, improve the accessibility of special need education for further training and practice at home.
-
Not at all! QTrobot is extremely easy to use!
QTrobot is designed specifically to be used by non-technical users, such as parents, teachers and therapists.
Anyone who is able to use a smartphone can learn how to use QTrobot in a matter of few minutes.
Here is a short video of unboxing QTrobot to conducting the first educational session!
-
Yes, QTrobot comes with different sets of educational curricula, focusing on early stage development, social skills, communication and emotional abilities. You can immediately start your child’s education by choosing the lessons from the available curricula.
Furthermore QTrobot educational content is growing consistently and as the time passes more educational modules will be added to the available pre-programmed content.
-
QTrobot for home comes with a placement quiz, a set of questionnaires for parents to identify where your child stands in terms of social, language development, cognitive and emotional skills in relation to the QTrobot educational curricula to help choosing the right teaching units based on your child’s needs and level of progress.
Furthermore, in order to ensure the best practice implementation, LuxAI will assign you a specialist in child education that will monitor your child progress and through monthly meetings can support you to define the educational goals and identify the lessons that corresponds to the defined goals.
-
No. QTrobot doesn’t need an internet connection to function.
QTrobot has an internal router that enables it to connect to the learner and the parent tablets independent of external internet connection.
However, to have access to the reporting and progress monitoring dashboard, or to get the latest updates you need to connect the parent tablet to the internet from time to time.
-
The benefits of QTrobot are not limited only to children with autism spectrum disorder. A simple and engaging teaching environment, possibility of tireless and constant repetition, and opportunity to practice social and emotional skills in a controlled and gamified environment can benefits many children!
-
QTrobot package for home includes 30 day No Questions Asked Return Policy. In these 30 days, you can use QTrobot and evaluate if it can be a good tool for your child’s unique needs and preferences.
If you decided that QTrobot doesn’t meet your expectation, you can inform us within 30 days of receiving QTrobot to send back the QTrobot to us and get the full refund, expect for the costs of shipment.