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Category Archives: Intouch Health
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
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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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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Its been a quiet month of April…
InTouchHealth announces their RP-Xpress product at the American Telemedicine Association’s 16th Annual International Meeting and Exposition in Tampa, FL. Continue reading
Posted in Anybots, Anybots QB, Intouch Health, Mantaro, Remote Presence Systems, RoboDynamics, TiLR, VGo, VGo Communications
Tagged InTouch Health, RP-Xpress
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Interview with Dr. Yulin Wang from InTouch Health
Normally in these pieces, I would go into the history of the founder and the way he/she built up their first remote presence offering. In this case, Dr. Yulin Wang (pronounced “Wong”) is far from an unknown quantity. In this article, I spent more of my time discussing with him about the future of remote presence and where he sees the industry going. Continue reading
Posted in Intouch Health, Remote Presence Systems, RP7i, RPS Companies
Tagged Dr. Yulin Wang, InTouch Health, RP, RP-Lite, RP7-Xpress, RP7i
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Remote Presence Links for February 20, 2011
Hear here and the Anybot QA – VGo Promotional YouTube Video – Robo-Romance: Wall-E and Eve had a love-child – Technology Fans Come in All Sizes Continue reading
Remote Presence Links for February 11, 2011
Low Cost Video Chat Robot – Lift11: Sabine Hauert, Robotics today – Robot helping fill Kern’s specialist doctor gap Continue reading
Remote Presence Links for January 31, 2011
Remote Presence Links for January 31, 2011 – Why I Don’t Like Telepresence Robots – YET – Q&A: Ken Goldberg Discusses Telerobots, Androids and Heidegger – 12 Advances in Medical Robotics – When Only a Robotic Video Presence Will Do – Rumor on new features on an RPS company product Continue reading
Posted in Anybots, Anybots QB, AVA, Intouch Health, iRobot, Remote Presence Links, Remote Presence News, Remote Presence Systems, RP7i, RPS Companies, VGo, VGo Communications
Tagged Adept Technology, Anybots QB, Fred Nikgohar, InTouch Health, iRobot AVA, NurseBot, remote presence system, RP7i, vgo
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Remote Presence links for January 19, 2011
Programmed for Love – thoughtful article with MIT ethnographer Sherry Turkle warning about the dangers of our continued reliance on technology for our social engagement. Rundown of Telepresence Robots – a quick and dirty rundown of the RPSes he has found in the world today. (Pssst – there are more coming…) and What Can You Do With AVA (iRobot’s new telepresence concept robot seen at CES 2011)? – a article by Frank Tobe on the AVA.
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Posted in Anybots, Anybots QB, AVA, Intouch Health, iRobot, Remote Presence News, Remote Presence Systems, RoboDynamics, RPS Companies, TiLR, VGo, VGo Communications
Tagged iRobot, iRobot AVA, remote presence, robotic telepresence, social norms, social technology, technology creep, telepresence robots
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