4. Conclusion

Through this article, we hope to have demonstrated the various benefits offered by robots in the clinic of ASD children. These mediation tools offer a number of avenues for addressing the difficulties that autistic subjects may have with social interaction and communication, and more generally with their relationship to intersubjectivity and access to subjectivation. The interest of autistic subjects in machines, and more particularly in new technologies, is now well known, and has been widely discussed in the scientific literature. We have focused in particular on the question of the digital via computing and robotic machines. This subject is all the more topical now that digital tools occupy a predominant place in almost all homes (and care institutions), and social robots are set to take an equally important place in the years to come.

As we have seen, several...