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Orange opens the first (okay, second) major sales channel with Ub-y
Last Thursday, Orange France announced a new product offering, the Ub-y (evoking the word ubiquity), is essentially a rebranded Beam+ from Suitable Technologies.
While the announcement of the Beam+ is over nine months old (from the 2014 CES Show), an agreement with a major telecoms operator like Orange in a major market is quite a change in perception of the viability of the concept of remote presence. Continue reading
Posted in Beam, Laurent Marchou, Orange, Remote Presence News, Remote Presence Systems
Tagged Beam, Orange France, Remote Presence Device, smart presence, Ub-y
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Suitable Tech acquires Willow Garage!
Bringing the two groups together gives Suitable their home once again (the predecessor of the Beam was created there) and a staff that are already versed in build and maintenance of robotics. Continue reading
double delivers and Cisco and iRobot make another Ava
double Robotics announces they are shipping their first pre-orders and iRobot announces partnership with Cisco on Ava 500. Continue reading
Willow Garage changing is a good thing.
News of Willow Garage’s change of organization may have surprised some, but from our point-of-view, it was only a matter of time. Continue reading
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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“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
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