{"id":1025115,"date":"2026-07-31T07:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025115"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:31:42","slug":"lifelike-robot-called-sally-was-going-to-teach-in-us-school-its-not-as-weird-as-it-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/31\/lifelike-robot-called-sally-was-going-to-teach-in-us-school-its-not-as-weird-as-it-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifelike robot called &#8216;Sally&#8217; was going to teach in US school. It&#8217;s not as weird as it sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New York school district made global headlines this week for plans to trial a humanoid robot named &#8220;Sally&#8221; in high school classrooms. <\/p>\n<p>Sally has lifelike silicone skin, long brown hair, and the ability to move her arms, head, and face while seated. According to the manufacturer, she uses &#8220;natural conversation, facial expressions and real-time interaction&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>She is programmed to be a stationary classroom teaching assistant and would work as a chatbot to answer student and teacher questions. She would also be available to students 24\/7 as a digital avatar online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York school district made global headlines this week for plans to trial a humanoid robot named &#8220;Sally&#8221; in high school classrooms. Sally has lifelike silicone skin, long brown hair, and the ability to move her arms, head, and face while seated. According to the manufacturer, she uses &#8220;natural conversation, facial expressions and real-time interaction&#8221;. She is programmed to be a stationary classroom teaching assistant and would work as a chatbot to answer student and teacher questions. She would also be available to students 24\/7 as a digital avatar online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025136,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025115\/revisions\/1025136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}