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Author Archives: Sanford Dickert
Can a kiss with a remote girl be dangerous?
What his wife does not know about, can’t hurt her. Continue reading
Posted in Beam, Scott Hassan, Suitable Technologies
Tagged Beam, CES 2013, Suitable Technologies
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Serge is for real! No, wait! Bossa Nova launches mObi!
Bossa Nova Robotics, along with their friends at CMU have launched the first commerically viable Ballbot remote presence system. Continue reading
Posted in Bossa Nova, mObi, Remote Presence News
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“Beam me up, Scotty!” Suitable announces the Beam!
At midnight tonight, Suitable Tech’s CEO Scott Hassan unveiled the second version of their Remote Presence System – the Beam.
The Beam itself is not the System, since the entire collection (remote presence device, the client app and the docking station) make up the entire system. engadget was given a preview which shows the device as Scott has “beam”ed into the Beam. See the video below: Continue reading
Double Robotics outdoes both Anybots and iRobot Ava
With a slew of articles discussing “Shelbot Has Nothing on These iPad Telepresence Robots” or “Double Robotics’ telepresence robot gives your iPad legs” in the last 24 hours, we were thrilled to see someone come up with an incredibly simple, elegant solution to the quite expensive iRobot Ava. Continue reading
InTouch Health and iRobot Launch RP-VITA Telepresence System [video]
As shown on the video below, the RP-VITA is a beautiful marriage between InTouch’s focus on healthcare and iRobot’s strengths in robotic manufacturing and navigation. We await a chance to see this device in person to give you an upfront and close examination of this device. With a footprint that is smaller and easier to navigate than the RP-7, the RP-VITA may just be what the patients ordered. Continue reading
Remote Presence Links for July 25, 2012
Remote Presence Links for July 26, 2011 – Robot Startup Companies – Will Your Next Government Co-Worker Be a Robot? – The Avatar Economy – Botiful, social presence robot for Android Continue reading
Press Release: Anybots hires a new CEO
A couple of nights ago, we got ourselves a little note in the inbox responding to our past report that Anybots may have been aqui-hired by Facebook.
The email (from Tim Lenihan at Anybots) tells us that David Rogan, former Cisco Executive has joined Anybots as Chief Executive Officer to help bring about the re-energizing of the company. Continue reading
Posted in Anybots, Anybots QB, GOSTAI, Intouch Health, iRobot, Remote Presence Systems, RPS Companies
Tagged Anybots, Anybots QB, David Rogan, telepresence robots
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Remote Presence Links for May 15, 2011
Remote Presence Links for May 15, 2011 – Bell Labs developing Nethead, a cheaper teleconferencing robot – Anybots Roundup – iRobot CEO: Enough with the gimmick ‘bots (Q & A) Continue reading
Posted in Anybots, Colin Engle, iRobot, Remote Presence Links, RPS Companies
Tagged Anybots, Colin Angle, iRobot, Nethead
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Rumors: Facebook acquires Anybots?
Rumors have come to the attention of our blog that our friends at Anybots may have been acquired by the Facebook monolith — in their quest to acquire developer talent and potentially some neat telepresence toys.
To be clear, this rumor has yet to be substantiated by anyone — but in our investigation of some of Anybots’ web footprints have led us to think something may have happened to our friends in Mountain View in the past two months: Continue reading
