The Future of Robotic-Teacher relationship in classrooms: Cooperation or Competition?

As the realms of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics undergo exponential growth and the issue of teacher shortage remains a concern, the potential for remarkable advancements in education with the assistance of robots becomes increasingly important. This review is conducted to understand the forthcoming role of robotics in education and its impact on teachers’ role in the classroom. Currently, it is widely known that AI is evolving in a rapid way, creating a huge presence in our life, building a perception among people that it will take over the role of human in various settings in the future. Various articles and research papers, published between the years 1982 and 2024, were thoroughly reviewed to explore different types of Robots-teachers’ relationships, methods or approaches used to assess such relations, the reported outcomes and acceptance level of key stakeholders. Based on the review, there was a consistency among the findings of all selected articles leading to the fact that the role of Robots demonstrates a supportive nature to teacher’s role. In other words, the obtained evidence was clearly presenting Robots-teachers relationship as a cooperative connection rather than a competition, reassuring teachers that their existence in classes is paramount. However, this paper aims to shed the lights on future possibilities considering the following: • technology is paving its way to further developments, which are ambiguous today and will unleash in the future, • human being is indeed paving its way towards new complexities, • Potential critical uncertainties could change the rules of the game,