Salamanca schools halted deployment while addressing student-data agreements and community concerns about the vendor’s corporate ties. The stationary humanoid robot was intended as a robotics and technology aid, not an autonomous classroom teacher.
Salamanca City Central School District paused deployment of a nearly $60,000 humanoid robot. The district bought the robot for high school robotics and technology programs. State education officials and residents raised data-privacy questions.
The district said the robot would not record audio or video or search the open internet. Officials said information would be stored locally and student authentication would use district systems. The district continued work on enhanced student-data privacy agreements and community outreach.
The robot’s maker, Realbotix, has a sister company with an ownership stake in an adult-products business. The company said the educational unit was purpose-built and separately managed. A procurement pause leaves the purchase intact while conditions for use are reviewed.
At the publication cutoff, the checked record establishes the following limit: The privacy safeguards and educational performance had not been independently tested in a live classroom. The next public records expected to update this account are completion and publication of the privacy agreements and whether the board resumes, modifies or cancels the pilot.
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