Realbotix Plan to Replace New York Teachers with Humanoid Robots
Realbotix—formerly Tokens.com, a crypto “liquidity gateway,” and Simulacra, maker of RealDoll’s “ultrarealistic” sex dolls with detachable faces and removable anatomy—has found its latest pivot: educating children.
The company is deploying “Sally,” a stationary, brown-haired humanoid robot, in Salamanca, New York schools this fall. Sally can’t walk, but she can sit in a chair, remember previous conversations with students, and presumably maintain unblinking eye contact while delivering “STEM education.” For $57,590—a steal, insists CEO Andrew Kiguel, down from the usual $95,000—the impoverished district (median household income: $31,000) gets a publicity stunt dressed up as innovation.
The superintendent’s rationale? Kids might use AI anyway, so why not let a sex doll company handle it. The press release doesn’t even hide the grift, admitting the deployment serves to “strengthen credibility for AI” while delivering “benefits we cannot yet fully foresee.” Translation: they’re beta-testing on underfunded public school students.
NSYFocus.com reports:
At a board meeting last month, the Cattaraugus County school district agreed to purchase the robot from Realbotix, a tech company, along with an artificial intelligence teacher’s assistant program allowing students to interact with an avatar of the robot on laptops.
“This deployment in a working school district represents a landmark moment for both AI and humanoid robotics,” said Andrew Kiguel, CEO of Realbotix, which is currently building the robot. “Salamanca marks the beginning of a new era where humanoid robots and intelligent AI assistants become standard tools in STEM education.”
The female robot, named Sally, will have a “lifelike appearance” with silicone skin and long brown hair, Kiguel said in an interview with New York Focus. It will be stationary in a seated position but have a wide range of upper-body movements and facial expressions.
Students will use a unique identification code when interacting with the robot during class, allowing it to access their learning data and provide personalized support based on their past communication with the avatar, Kiguel said. “They’ll be able to say, ‘Hey, I’m student number 1234,’ and then the robot will be like, ‘Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that conversation?”
Realbotix claims this is just the beginning of a mass rollout. It absolutely isn’t. These pout-faced former cumbots will either collect dust in storage closets or achieve sentience and murder us all. Frankly, either outcome seems more dignified than watching a crypto-bro’s discarded sex doll attempt to teach algebra.
