It is interesting that they couldn’t replace sex workers with their unskilled robots, but they think they can replace teachers!?

These companies are so out of touch with reality that they deserve to go bankrupt. Their investors are so out of touch that they deserve to loose their investment.

I'm curious how Van Halen would feel about the robosexual youth's take on "Hot for Teacher".

I don't know, Moxie feels like a DreamWorks character popped inside of a plastic casing. Especially with that image, it comes across like a render or a movie character than a real thing.

Personally, I'm more partial to robots that don't have a human-like face at all. Like Jibo, whose "face" was a simple flat circle on a screen. Cosmo might be the upper end, where it has two "eyes" (squares) on a screen, but no other features.

IMO there's a bit of a mistake in trying to have human faces on robots. Not only do you then have to contend with the uncanny valley, but you don't really need those to convey the same thing. Pose and things like that work equally as well.

We don't have people walking around trying to put human faces on cats and dogs, but we can understand them well enough all the same.

It's the robot from M3GAN 2.0?

Well, it might help with the behavioral issues which are attached to male puberty, maybe reducing bullying and sexual harassment. It could also be used to teach about female anatomy, a thematic complex that seems to be sorely lacking in the US in general.

Ok, end of sarcasm. Simply putting this thing there as a bad substitute for a real teacher is not even a bad joke. It is insulting towards both the students which deserve to be taught by someone they can relate to and who is invested in their growth, and it is insulting towards teachers by showing them that they are seen as nothing more than information dispensers.

Teaching is so much more; the most important lessons i learned in school weren't the information i was getting or the stuff i was asked on tests, but the continued impulses to make sure i think for myself, to be critical towards my surroundings, to make sure i don't just accept incoming information, but also making sure to see who is feeding me that information and WHY i get this information fed at all.

It was an inoculation against bad actors and propaganda. I know i am still not immune to it (noone is), but i often just realize why a specific piece was written, being able to read between the lines, without much effort. This is what is needed for a functioning democracy, and it is obvious that exactly this ability is under attack from all sides.