A professor uses robots to engage incarcerated students

Image:  Students sit in rows facing the front of the classroom where Anne Nurse, a professor of sociology at the College of Wooster, sits on a desk and lectures. Sometimes the students gather in circles for small-group discussions. The criminology class looks like any other course on the Ohio campus—except for the robots. Six out of the 19 students in the course are incarcerated and attending class via robotic stand-ins, which the incarcerated students control remotely from Indian...