Digital Mental Health Interventions · Clinical trial

Can a robot guide anxiety exercises?

Paper: LLM-powered socially assistive robot-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy exercises: an exploratory study with university students
Kian et al. · Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2026 · doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2026.1802622

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Can a robot guide anxiety exercises? In an exploratory study, 38 students did CBT with a robot, chatbot or worksheets. Anxiety fell significantly after a session five of eight days with the robot, two with a chatbot, none with worksheets.

AI-assisted summary with an AI voice, not reviewed by the authors. Made from the paper under its CC BY licence. Read the paper before relying on a finding. Keywords: socially assistive robots, cognitive behavioral therapy, large language models, chatbots, anxiety reduction, depression.