Abstract: Disclosed are an education assisting robot and a control method thereof. The method includes: capturing and recognizing students' faces from shot images, and checking students' attendance; and capturing a teacher's face from the shot images and identifying a target, and target-following the teacher. The role of a target character can be automatically distinguished from the images, and different actions can be made for different target characters, including attendance checking and target following, so as to provide more different response functions and reduce the workload of teachers.