A description is provided of robots with which children interact at an early childhood education center. One robot leads the children in singing songs and playing games that educate. Another robot is a humanoid that spends time dancing with the children. The children are participants in a project developed by a scientist with a machine perception lab in the applied physics and math building at a university campus. Also participating is a laptop-user who tracks the efficacy of the software and hardware that run the robots. The components know the names of the children and the operator can make the robots communicate with the children. Although things go wrong with the technology, which is based on artificial intelligence (AI), that is nothing new for AI scientists, and the one leading this project is convinced that the robots will be used as a matter of course in classrooms as teaching machines. A scientific shakedown (reevaluation of AI methodology and agenda) will be required, however, to get there. Among topics covered are the work of graduate students, postdoctoral candidates, and visiting scholars on the project, the expression recognizer program, and the components of the robots (which include an Ikea Ilen TV bench, pegboard, an Elotouch.com Entuitive 1247L touchscreen, components borrowed from Japan, hands made from a reworked claw machine used in arcades, and three different onboard processors that handle perceptions that are coordinated on the laptop).