This weekend at the Ninth Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, I presented the preliminary results of my research exploring how children think about robots. Robots are increasingly a part of children’s lives. They can be found teaching in classrooms, working in hospitals, and giving tours in museums. This research project looks at what children think about these robots. To find out, we showed 4- to 12-year-old children videos of either a machine-like or a hu