Salamanca NY School District Pilots Humanoid Robot Sally as AI Tutor in Classroom
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Salamanca NY School District Pilots Humanoid Robot Sally as AI Tutor in Classroom

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TL;DRSalamanca City Central School District in rural New York will pilot a humanoid robot named Sally as an AI teaching assistant in high school STEM courses, marking one of the first such deployments in a US classroom.

The Salamanca City Central School District in rural Western New York is set to become one of the first US school systems to deploy a humanoid robot as an AI teaching assistant. Starting this fall, the district will pilot Realbotix's M-Series robot named Sally in high school AI and robotics courses. The robot operates offline, uses district-curated curriculum, and is designed to augment rather than replace human teachers. For AI builders, this pilot offers a real-world case study in constrained, privacy-focused AI deployment in education.

What happened

The Salamanca City Central School District, located on the Seneca Nation reservation, approved the purchase of the humanoid robot Sally and an accompanying AI avatar program at a board meeting. The total cost was [$57,590](https://www.the74million.org/article/rural-ny-school-district-will-be-one-of-first-to-bring

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