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Author Archives: Sanford Dickert
The next great company will come from remote presence systems
The ability to shape the “feel” and the production of a product that creates an experience for others is key in the adoption of a product. Jobs has a fanatical attitude of the proper attention to detail, quite like how Bill and Dave used to have for a particular engineering culture. I believe the most successful company in the telepresence robots space will come from the one that has the strongest artistic and manufacturing geniuses out there. Continue reading
Posted in Remote Presence Issues
Tagged Anybots, iRobot, remote presence systems, VGo Communications
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No Telepresence Robots Allowed!
Just saw this terrific comic from Bleeker Comics and thought you would have a laugh. I will be catching up with Pilot Presence news in the coming weeks. Sorry for the extended holiday.
Posted in Remote Presence Amusement
Tagged remote presence systems, RPS funny, telepresence robots
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One Year Anniversary of the Texai on The Big Bang Theory
On September 30th, it will be one year since Sheldon and the Shel-Bot made its appearance on the Big Bang Theory. In honor of that day, we uncovered a couple of shots from that fateful day on set. Continue reading
Posted in Remote Presence Systems, Texai
Tagged Curt Meyers, remote presence systems, texai, The Big Bang Theory, The Woz
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Great shot of the Anybot flower girl…
Posted in Anybots, Anybots QB, Remote Presence Systems, RPS Companies
Tagged Anybots, robotic telepresence, telepresence robot
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vGo is making some hay with LTE [video]
vGo is slowly but surely building up their distribution and product presence. vGo has successfully tested LTE and demoed it at the Verizon Innovation Center on July 13th. Continue reading
Posted in Remote Presence News, Remote Presence Systems, RPS Companies, RPS People, Tim Root, VGo, VGo Communications
Tagged Tim Root, vgo, VGo Communications
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Evaluation on iRobot and Intouch Health partnership
Today, iRobot and InTouch Health made news by announcing a partnership leveraging the business connections of InTouch into the healthcare industry and iRobot’s strong technical innovation efforts in robotics. While it sounds good, we wonder if the formability is not more of a defensive posture for one or the other. Continue reading
Posted in AVA, Head There, Health Care, Intouch Health, iRobot, Remote Presence News, Remote Presence Systems, RP7i, RPS Companies
Tagged InTouch Health, iRobot, iRobot AVA
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GOSTAI delivers on their new navigation interface [video]
GOSTAI releases a video on their newest interface for the Jazz and it looks like they learned from their prior experiences and scarfed a couple of features from other players. Who says imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? I know Fred at Robodynamics and Tim at vGo will appreciate it. Continue reading
Suitable Technologies enters the field…
One of the many under-cover companies has now popped up on the radar in the telepresence space, as announced in Technology Review India which informs us about Suitable Technologies, a spin-off from Willow Garage that is taking my favorite RPS system (the Texai) and working on improving it for delivery in the second half of 2012. Continue reading
Another player in the field?
So, today at the WWDC conference, it looks like another player is testing their toe in the poll – Taptic Toys.
Their Creative Director played the pilot on their prototype – but from the video below, it looks like the toy is exactly that – a toy. The gent with the RPS (my guess is his name is David Cann) seems to be potentially driving the RPS with his iPhone. Romina, who is an excellent actress and performer (you can see her portfolio site here) makes for an entertaining pilot. Continue reading
Posted in Remote Presence Systems
Tagged remote presence systems, Romina Espinosa, RPS, Taptic Toys, WWDC
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Keeping up with Anybots
It has been a while since we have discussed our friends in Mountain View and last week, we caught up with Trevor and heard how the team has been cranking on rolling out their QBs to the market. As he wrote in his April post, the issues of static electricity have caused delayed they never expected. But, in the past week, they have put to rest most – if not all – of the issues and are ready to roll them out to their owners. Continue reading
Posted in Anybots, Anybots QB, Remote Presence Systems, RPS Companies, Trevor Blackwell
Tagged Anybots, Anybots QB, Trevor Blackwell, Xconomy
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