Telerobot for embodied teleconferencing

By at 11:20 am Monday, May 26

Hewlett-Packard Labs has a new mobile telerobot "surrogate" outfitted with a display screen to show the face of the remote operator. Their eTravel Mutually Immersive Mobile Telepresence sounds very similar to bOING bOING pals Eric Paulos and John Canny's Personal Roving Presence (PRoP) research at UC Berkeley in the mid 1990s. Link Discuss

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