BGSU's Hanna: a campus-built humanoid enters the classroom
From the Robots digest for 2026-10-14
What happened: Bowling Green State University faculty and students spent three months creating Hanna, a humanoid robot designed to help prepare students for the technology (WTOL, ~8:46 PM ET October 14); the captured summary truncates at the program's purpose, leaving the deployment settings and hardware provenance unstated.
Debut: no prior education/campus-robotics thread on file — a university-built teaching robot, a lane distinct from the commercial deployment records (factory, warehouse, construction) and from the civic-robot street problems. It joins the beat's widening periphery of non-vendor builders: student-and-faculty capability building beside Config Intelligence's data play and Intel's supplier lane.
Watch: what Hanna actually does in class sessions, whether the platform is vendor hardware or fully in-house, and whether other universities follow.
Links: WTOL