Thursday, June 26, 2025

Walking, Talking, Engaging AI in Higher Ed - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed

We are most accustomed to writing prompts and challenging artificial intelligence to give us answers, insights, sources, video clips and creativity. Emerging now is the walking, talking AI that engages us on our level. We have front-row seats to the maturing of AI in higher education. There has been audio for a while, but now we are preparing for embodied AI. The race is on among multiple competitors to give AI a humanoid body that enables a wide variety of teaching capabilities as well as unique opportunities to advance research and engage the public. Images and early specifications of an assortment of humanoid robots under development can be viewed in this April 8 report on the Robozaps site.