By Stephanie Baum
A company has developed a robot to help autistic children learn social reference skills and is raising $1.25 million to produce more in a beta production run.
The Popchilla robot conveys emotions such as anger, happiness and sadness as its ears and eye color changes according to its mood — social references children with autistic spectrum disorder struggle to interpret in other people.
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