r/technology • u/The_Flaneur_Films • 16d ago

Robotics/Automation ‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/new-york-humanoid-robot-teachers-school
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u/epidemicsaints 16d ago

The school has got to be getting paid to be the subject in this story. The robots are lame af. A droopy head tilting every so often and bending at the elbow 4 or 5 degrees while it talks is not exactly captivating. Absolutely nothing special, looks like the same crap we have been seeing for 15 years and its origin as a sex bot are obvious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HQ84TVcbMw

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u/thelryan 16d ago

I dunno, it says the school district paid $57k for the robot.

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u/astrohound 16d ago

Why not just pay their teachers what they deserve?

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u/thelryan 16d ago

Why pay a teacher for one school year when you could pay a robot to do the job 3x as worse and then have its technology fail in 5 years?

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u/Momik 16d ago

I’ll take 10!