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more about #telepresence more comments → PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: Robot Negotiator! #thiscyborglife more » BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: This is how the 'robot' was able to ease the crazy man's nerves #thiscyborglife more » Kaiser-Machead: Negotiator Bot:Waste makes haste. For time is fleeting. A rolling stone is worth two in the bush. Armed man: Go fuck a refrigerator pecker neck! Neg... more » Aaron Leibowitz: You should come out of the house. We have cake! #thiscyborglife more » Kaiser-Machead: The biggest hurdle of all is batteries. No matter how elaborate you make a machine, it will always be limited by its power source. more » RoboBagins: what about spider tanks? I want autonomous robot insect tanks! And tank killing autonomous robot wasps! And Giant CRAB BATTLE! more » OmniZero: Yeah Johnny 5 from Short Circuit! Robots have no chance of revolting as long as there is no A.I. As soon as you implement that, you're done for. They'... more » Kaiser-Machead: So basically, we're talking about animatronic avatars of the modern soldier? Sounds nifty, but sounds goofifyingly expensive. Why bother with robo-ava... more » Pessimippopotamus: As long as there will be a Summer Glau bot on the way, it's all good. more » qhead7: the good folks at cisco were nice enough to let me see one of their telepresence systems. pretty neat stuff. HD!!! more » -
#robots
Police Robot Negotiator Ends Standoff With Armed Man
Sensorial telepresence is a fancy name for sending robots with sensors to remote places, generally to perform dangerous tasks. Last Saturday, one was used to negotiate with an armed 61-yo man holding a hostage, barricaded into a home. More » -
#manvsmachine
Five Reasons Why Humanoid Robots Will Someday Fight Our Wars
Robots are officially on the battlefield—UAVs like the Predator and Reaper patrol the skies while militarized bomb-disposal robots like the Talon detonate explosives on the ground. But where are the humanoids? Roboticist and author Daniel H. Wilson makes the case for a humanoid robot army. More » -
#cisco
Cisco's Streaming Media Boxes and HD Telepresence Gear for Average Joe
Cisco doesn't want to just cater to your IT guy anymore—they're jumping into the consumer space at CES with three new streamy products: a video streamer, a streaming audio system, and Telepresence, a videoconferencing system.
