With funding from the Singapore Millennium Fund, Youth Progress Singapore has participated in a month-long clinical trial to test out robotic puppetry in the kindergarten setting. Some details of the study could be found in this conference paper presented by the NTU research team at the International Conference on Robotics & Automation 2015 held in Seattle, USA.
A Causo, GT Vo, E Toh, IM Chen, SH Yeo, PW Tzuo, “Developing and Benchmarking Show & Tell Robotic Puppet for Preschool Education”, in Proc of the 2015 IEEE Int Conf on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015), Seattle, USA, 25-30 May 2015 (DOI:10.1109/ICRA.2015.7140057)