  The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic affected our lives deeply, just
like everyone else, the children also suffered from the restrictions due to
COVID-19 affecting their education and social interactions with others, being
restricted from play areas and schools for a long time. Although social robots
provide a promising solution to support children in their education, healthcare
and social interaction with others, the precautions due to COVID-19 also
introduced new constraints in the social robotics research. In this paper, we
will discuss the benefits and challenges encountered in child-robot interaction
due to COVID-19 based on two user studies. The first study involves children
with hearing disabilities, and Pepper humanoid robot to support their
audiometry tests. The second study includes the child-sized humanoid robot
Kaspar and interaction games with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
