Megaconference

[Andrew Daviel <>]

FYI

The magazine "New Scientist" has a recent editorial "Is telepresence the 
next big thing?"
Which reminded me of a thought construct I made in 2002 called "Norbert 
the conference robot".
Apparently Double Robotics is going to ship a telepresence robot for 
$2000 - just add an iPad for the screen and camera - while other vendors
have systems for about $10,000 based on Segway tech (maybe Segway will be 
revolutionary after all, just not how they expected).

http://andrew.triumf.ca/andrew/norbert/ - with updated links
("Norbert" looks embarrassingly crude now, even if he does have arms ...)


The longer NS article (login required) mentions 7-year-old Devon 
Carrow, who has severe allergies and uses a Vgo to attend school in 
Buffalo NY.
There are several articles in mainstream and tech media.


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Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
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