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Tag Archives: telepresence
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 [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged ATR, Geminoid, hiroshi ishiguro, Intelligent Robotics Lab, kokoro, replicant, telepresence, telerobot
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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 [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged Dallas Goecker, discovery day, open source, PR2, Rob Wheeler, show and tell, telepresence, telerobot, Texai, Texas Alpha, Willow Garage
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MeBot, the Telepresence Robot With Body Language (Video)
It may not make sense to your binary minds, robots, but humans talk with their hands. Thankfully, engineers at the [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Robots
Tagged articulated limbs, MeBot, MIT Media Lab, Personal Robotics Group, Sigurdur Orn Adalgeirsson, telepresence, telerobot
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Willow Garage Creates Awesome Open Source Telepresence Robots
Fans of open source robotics need look no further than Willow Garage. Not satisfied with merely creating an amazing robot [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged open source, telepresence, Texas Alpha, Texas robots, Willow Garage
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Vu Tries to Undercut Cisco with Cheaper Telepresence
A couple of months ago we discussed the decline of business travel and the rise of high quality video conferencing [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged bandwidth, CES 2010, cisco, HP, polycom, telepresence, video conferencing, vu
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Anybots Telepresence Robots Go into Mass Production
Can’t make that business meeting in another city? Send your robot instead. We’ve been keeping track of Anybots telepresence robots [...]
Cisco Telepresence Coming To Your Home Despite Alternatives
I couldn’t be home for Christmas this year, so I video chatted with my family instead. The picture quality was [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged calls, cisco, france telecom, LG, Panasonic, polycom, skype, telepresence, verizon, video conferencing
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Remote Controlled Robot Pet Sitter
Okay, I rarely spend time looking at “concept machines” but this one just made me chuckle enough that I had [...]
Posted in Gadgets
Tagged concept, haptics, MintPad, MintPass, MintSelect, Robot Pet Sitter, Rovio, telepresence
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Build Your Own Telepresence Robot – Sparky Jr.
In the list of awesome things to do with your free time, “build a robot” has always been right up [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged diy, john celenza, marquee cornblatt, open source, remotely operated vehicle, ROV, sparky jr, telepresence
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Is Surrogates Movie Getting Closer to Reality?
You know you live in a crazy age when blockbuster movies look like they might come true. Next month marks [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Robots, Singularity
Tagged anybots, AVATAR, braingate, bruce willis, cyberdyne, Hanson Robotics, haptics, robert vendetti, robot, robotics, surrogates, technophile, technophobe, telepresence, transcendent man
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Up Close With the Telepresence Robot From Anybots
Can’t make it to a meeting thousands of miles away, but wish you could? Need to be two places at [...]