Ep. 124
03:59
A Rural New York School Will Put a Humanoid Robot in a US Classroom This Fall
About This Episode
The Salamanca City Central School District in upstate New York, on Seneca Nation land, says it will become one of the first US districts to bring a humanoid robot, named Sally and built by Realbotix, into a K-12 classroom this fall. Officials insist Sally will support teachers, not replace them, and will run inside high school AI and robotics classes using a curriculum from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Our Take
A single humanoid robot walking into a rural school this fall turns an abstract debate about automation into a concrete question every parent can feel: if the machine can teach the lesson, what is school actually for?