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South Africa’s first robot school teachers come from India
Byadmin August 22, 2026

IRIS, the AI humanoid tutor that the Department of Science said was created by Thandoh Gumede and will soon head to over 20,000 schools in South Africa was actually created by an Indian company, as part of a government school programme in 2021.

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South Africa launches manufacturing facility to build humanoid IRIS teachers with 23,000 schools targeted
Byadmin August 16, 2026

Thando Gumede, creator of the IRIS robot tutor, said that the long-term goal would see a model deployed at each school in the country.

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South African experts snubbed from helping with draft AI policy that included fake research
Byadmin April 29, 2026

A top academic researcher in a South African university alleges that the country’s top AI experts were not contacted to help with the now-withdrawn Draft National AI Policy.

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