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Posted on 07/20/2026 3:33:12 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
They’re bot for teacher.
A rural upstate New York school district will be one of the first in the nation to bring a humanoid robot into the classroom.
The Salamanca City Central School District, located on Seneca Nation territory, will be introducing $57,000 AI-powered “Sally” in high school classes in September as a teaching assistant, it announced last week.
“Sally” will have brown hair, latex skin and will be able to move its arms and hands — but won’t be able to cruise around the classroom since her legs don’t move.
“It’s exciting but also a bit nerve wracking,” superintendent Dr. Mark Beehler told The Post of the first of its kind pilot program, a partnership with Las Vegas-based company Realbotix Corporation.
“Not everyone is open to much change in education…There was a point in time where people argued ‘Why do teachers need email accounts?’ or ‘Do we really need to have the internet in school?’ This is the next iteration of that. And the reality is, AI is already in schools,” he said.
For now, Sally is scheduled to be in 11th and 12th graders at Salamanca High School where she will take a byte out of coding, robotic, and artificial intelligence classes.
To make Sally more approachable, she’ll feature a western New York accent — similar to Buffalo native Gov. Kathy Hochul — at the behest of the school district.
“We don’t really hear the accent. We think it sounds neutral,” Beehler joked.
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Ping!
Desensitizing children, indoctrinating them. Of course this robot will be programmed with teachers union values, so don’t think this will be any improvement.
Until it rips a child’s head off
The kids should tell it to put a comma after every word so they can understand what it says , Then periods at the end of a sentence . Then every word with an A in it say it twice ,LOL
Will it be able to bitch constantly about not getting paid enough? Does it have protesting skills?
YouTube has a video of a guy doing this to an AI scam call and it drove it insane ,LOL
New York? You really need the ED209 from Robocop.
Change its’ name to Bob and enjoy the fun.
Not creepy at all. Will it have the socialist bartender’s accent?
Will she speak Arabic? Chinese? Ebonics?
How long before little Johnny takes her top off!??
At least until they figure out how to make the Robots pay union dues and vote in schoolboard elections.
They need to make a Dalek model for urban classrooms.
In July of 2026, the school district faced criticism after announcing the implementation of an AI based robotic teacher.[13] Part of the controversy was prompted by the manufacturer Realbotix, due to it's ownership of Abyss Creation, manufacturer of the RealDoll brand of sex dolls.[14] Realbotix states that "no employees, technology, or facilities" are shared between their education division and RealDoll.[15]I wonder how much the kids will offer to get the
Compulsion.
That is what’s missing in the plan. The military could help with adding non-lethals.
I think chimpanzees would be more appropriate than robots.
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