Tag Archives: telepresence

iRobot CEO Discusses Their New Robot AVA

We found this video from CNNMoney, about AVA, iRobot’s latest personal assistance robot. We’ve covered AVA before, how it’s basically [...]

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New Startup Romotive Turns Your Smartphone Into A Robot (video)

How awesome is Romo the Smartphone Robot? Without knowing anything about it, you simply have to look at the robot’s [...]

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Seafaring Robots Begin Record-Breaking, 300-Day Journey Halfway Around The World (video)

Meet Piccard Maru, Fontaine Maru, Benjamin, and Papa Mau, the four sea-faring robots that set out from San Francisco November [...]

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Welcome to Rite Aid, The Virtual Doctors Will See You Now

You got your shopping list: coffee, toothpaste, Tums, and…a doctor’s consultation about your lower back pain? Rite Aid is now [...]

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Tased From Above! New Robot Copter To Begin Patrolling Our Skies (video)

Forget the idea that weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are only for military operations in wars fought in far off [...]

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Computer Chip-Sized Spacecraft Will Explore Space In Swarms

We knew to expect a paradigm shift with the end of the space shuttle program, but this is ridiculous. Mason [...]

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Anybots Ramps Up To Bring Telepresence Robot Revolution

Are you ready to test drive your robot? At $15,000 Anybots‘ QB telepresence platform is priced like a car, drives [...]

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Anybots Has An Army of Telepresence Robots Ready to Send Your Way!

There’s little in this world that will frustrate us technophile types more than having to wait for our robots to [...]

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Teroos – The Telepresence Robot You Wear On Your Shoulder (video)

Attention all pirates of the future, I’ve just found the 21st century version of the squawking parrot sidekick. Developed at [...]

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PaPeRo Is the TeleRobot Cute Enough To Kill Your Landline and Take Its Place

When you’re a super cute blushing robot, humans will let you get away with murder. Especially if the thing you’re [...]

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Is This Video A Preview of Apple’s New Robot? I’ve Got Exclusive Info!

I love a good mystery, especially when I already know the answer. Early this week someone sent Sanford Dickert a [...]

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The Gostai Jazz Telebot Brings French Style to Mobile Telepresence

7:00 AM PST- Investor meeting in Berlin 12:00 PM PST- Lunch with wife in Seattle 2:00 PM PST- Walk and [...]

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Texas Student Attends School as a Robot – A Sign of Things to Come

Freshman Lyndon Baty’s immune system is so fragile he can’t risk being surrounded by people his own age, yet he [...]

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iRobot’s AVA Has an iPAD for a Head

Faced with an intellectual problem you just can’t handle? Why not swap out your head for a different one? Oh, [...]

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South Korea’s Robot Teachers To Test Telepresence Tools in the New Year

South Korea is testing robots that could help foreigners to reach out and teach someone. 29 robots were recently deployed [...]

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Celebrate Together When You’re Worlds Apart: Virtual Holiday Dinner (video)

This holiday season 156 people living on six different continents got to eat dinner with their closest friends and loved [...]

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Actroid F Female Telepresence Robot Looks Super Real, Creepy

When you speak with your family over a webcam they may be able to see your face, but they don’t [...]

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Telenoid – The Creepiest Telepresence Robot You’ll Ever Love (video)

Imagine talking to your friends through a robotic copy of Casper the Friendly Ghost. That’s what I imagine it must [...]

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RoboDynamics Reveals Hard Truth About Telepresence Robots

Like many of us, Fred Nikgohar remembers watching Star Wars and dreaming of the day he would have robots of [...]

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Taking a Ride Inside RoboDynamics TiLR Tele-Robot (video)

My job has its perks and one of the best is test driving robots. I recently had a chance to [...]

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Inside Anybots And The Rise of Human-Size Telepresence Robots (videos)

*Updated 7/12/10 Telerobots are here. Anybots wants to put you inside a robot. The Silicon Valley startup recently announced that [...]

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Anybots Debuts New $15k Telepresence Robot, Is it a Fail? (video)

Anybots, the telepresence startup out of Silicon Valley, wants to bring robots to the workplace. Their new QB telerobot lets [...]

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Tony Robbins, Sergey Brin Become Robots – The Telepresence Revolution

This past weekend while attending an Xprize fundraiser in San Francisco I saw self-help guru Tony Robbins and Google co-founder Sergey [...]

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Creepy but Very Life-Like Telepresence Replicant from Kokoro (video)

In the future, those unable to attend a meeting in person may decide to send a creepy robot in their [...]

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Willow Garage Shares Specs for TeleRobot, Takes It To Show and Tell at School

Wouldn’t you have loved to be the kid who brought a real life working robot to school for show and [...]

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