{"id":216097,"date":"2026-05-18T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/tech-world-stunned-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-famed-1970s-robot-emerges-after-50-years-heads-to-auction\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:00:19","slug":"tech-world-stunned-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-famed-1970s-robot-emerges-after-50-years-heads-to-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/tech-world-stunned-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-famed-1970s-robot-emerges-after-50-years-heads-to-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"TECH WORLD STUNNED. EARLY FORM OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE &#8211; FAMED 1970S ROBOT &#8211; EMERGES AFTER 50 YEARS &#8211; HEADS TO AUCTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aijourn.com\/tech-world-stunned-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-famed-1970s-robot-emerges-after-50-years-heads-to-auction\/\">TECH WORLD STUNNED. EARLY FORM OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE &#8211; FAMED 1970S ROBOT &#8211; EMERGES AFTER 50 YEARS &#8211; HEADS TO AUCTION<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aijourn.com\/tech-world-stunned-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-famed-1970s-robot-emerges-after-50-years-heads-to-auction\/\">https:\/\/aijourn.com\/tech-world-stunned-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-famed-1970s-robot-emerges-after-50-years-heads-to-auction\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 17:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"aijourn.com\">aijourn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leachim, a six-foot-tall robot used in a Bronx school in the 1970s, taught fourth-grade students with personalized and engaging AI-like capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>The robot was highly innovative, displaying features such as personalized teaching speed, knowledge of students&#8217; hobbies, and addressing students by name.<\/li>\n<li>Leachim garnered significant media attention and laid the foundation for future smart toys and educational technology.<\/li>\n<li>Created by inventor Michael J. Freeman, Ph.D., Leachim influenced multiple industries and helped to pioneer smart toy technology.<\/li>\n<li>Leachim is set to be auctioned in late 2026, with collectors, museums, and institutions showing interest in acquiring this piece of technological history.<\/li>\n<li>Additional resources and interview requests related to the robot can be directed to Suzanne, the curator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TECH WORLD STUNNED. EARLY FORM OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE &#8211; FAMED 1970S ROBOT &#8211; EMERGES AFTER&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/aijourn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9397951-MNR-Photo-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-216097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216099,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216097\/revisions\/216099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}