telepresence

Five years from now, we will talk on phones shaped like squirming tadpole men

Remember the Telenoid R1 telepresence robot we featured several months back? Now researchers from Osaka University have collaborated with NTT Docomo and Qualcomm to build the Elfoid, a telephone shaped like a pallid amphibious man. The phone you see above is still in development, but the functional Elfoid will be able to mirror the body…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Madness Takes Physical Form Within the Caduceus Cellphone Hack

South Korean inventor Mok Young Bak took his apparent obsessive compulsive disorder—an intangible thing—and put it into Caduceus, a very real thing. It serves one, mad purpose: Simultaneous cellphone usage from a remote location. Worry not about silly questions like “Why not just carry the phones with you?” or “Should we call the police?” Instead,…

Tech News Jack Loftus

At Least the Robot Isn’t Flying the Plane

Why was this Anybot telepresence robot on this Virgin America flight? I don’t know! But I think I’m cool with it. As long as it never complains about getting the middle seat. [Virgin America]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

$500 iRobot Hack Lets You Be Two Places at Once

A hacker has put together a viable home-brew telepresence robot using easily available components that’s good enough (if not pretty enough) to rival much more expensive peers like Anybot’s QB. More than anything this suggests telepresence virtual working is an imminent phenomenon. The enterprising chap in question is Johnny Chung Lee. Temporarily separated from his…

Tech News G. Jesse Martinez

Cisco Umi Brings HD Video Conferencing To Your Living Room

Cisco’s rumored telepresence-at-home system is now official and it’s called Umi. The set up comprises a set top box, a remote, and a 1080p camera that sits on top of your TV. It’s the new way to visit grandma! According to Engadget, the Umi will place video calls at 1080p and record them at 720p,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Cisco’s Telepresence Video Chat is Expected for Homes Next Week

We’ve been hearing for a while that Cisco was wanting to get down with Joe Blow on the street, so it’s not at all surprising to hear that next week they’re rumored to unveil a “cheap” home-telepresence product. When we say cheap, we mean it won’t cost much more than one of their Flip camcorders,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Fluid, High Quality HD Video Calls for Everyone

This is the new invention by the Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen—those guys who created the MP3 music compression algorithm: An inexpensive technology for fluid HD videoconferencing with almost no delay. Previously, this required very expensive dedicated hardware. According to Fraunhofer’s project manager Dr. Nikolaus Faerber, the “current low delay video technologies require either a much…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Freakish Spermbot Could Be the Future of Japanese Communication

Telenoid R1, the robot brainchild of designer Hiroshi Ishiguro, is what I imagine it would look like if Casper the Friendly Ghost got lucky with a sperm. It could also be the future of telepresence in Japan. The 11-lb. robot’s arm stubs, flagella tail, eyes, mouth and limbs all move in tune with the user,…

Artificial Intelligence Jack Loftus

Meet the Telenoid R1, a Casper-like robot that will haunt your dreams

Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University created this Telenoid R1 robot to “transmit the presence” of its user from afar. The Telenoid R1 was designed to be generic as possible, but it also resembles an embryonic Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. The silicon-skinned Telenoid R1 was designed to be entirely featureless so that people in its…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Finally, you’ll be able to make a robot breakdance in orbit

Meet SpaceJustin, a new telepresence robot designed to go into space and do the pop-and-lock maneuvers that are too hazardous to humans. SpaceJustin’s developers showed him off before the start of the International Aerospace Show in Germany. More pics below. Daft Punk needs to recruit this robot to join their back-up dancer team right away.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The DVE Immersion Room Is Corporate Hologram Hell Back to Haunt Us From the ’80s

The DVE Immersion room might well be the most impressive holographic telepresence setup for sharing 3D Powerpoint presentations ever (better than anything you could buy), but their promo video feels like it was produced by OCP in Robocop. https://gizmodo.com/ciscos-streaming-media-boxes-and-hd-telepresence-gear-f-5120268 The idea, as you can see in the video, is that you’re not trapped in a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

NASA Project M Puts Scientists’ Avatars On the Moon

NASA can put humanoids on the Moon in just 1000 days. They would be controlled by scientists on Earth using motion capture suits, giving them the feeling of being on the lunar surface. I’d pay to use one. Imagine sending every scientist to the Moon Back in the Lunar exploration days, scientists had to tell…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

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. There are no details about what were the motives of the standoff. The whole thing started after…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

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. A humanoid robot is a general-purpose robot that looks a…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

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. The first two—a video streamer that “more easily” gets Internet video on your TV, like million other boxes out there,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

DIY Telepresence Robot Lets You Work At Work In Your Undies

Telepresence robots pop up in different guises, including the Rovio (which lacks a screen to truly telepresence your image), but now there’s this DIY project to follow to build your own. At core Sparky the robot has a Mac-Mini, motorized carriage and a Make controller board—though you can use an arduino—and some custom software that…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

WowWee’s Rovio Roving Webcam Detailed in Videos

The Rovio is quite definitely revving up for its September 26th launch with a bunch of new promo videos from WowWee. If you weren’t already intrigued by the web-controlled roving webcam, then you will be after watching this teaser: it looks like it does a pretty fab job of maneuvering while streaming video and sounds.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Five years from now, we will talk on phones shaped like squirming tadpole men

Madness Takes Physical Form Within the Caduceus Cellphone Hack

At Least the Robot Isn’t Flying the Plane

$500 iRobot Hack Lets You Be Two Places at Once

Cisco Umi Brings HD Video Conferencing To Your Living Room

Cisco’s Telepresence Video Chat is Expected for Homes Next Week

Fluid, High Quality HD Video Calls for Everyone

Freakish Spermbot Could Be the Future of Japanese Communication

Meet the Telenoid R1, a Casper-like robot that will haunt your dreams

Finally, you’ll be able to make a robot breakdance in orbit

The DVE Immersion Room Is Corporate Hologram Hell Back to Haunt Us From the ’80s

NASA Project M Puts Scientists’ Avatars On the Moon

Police Robot Negotiator Ends Standoff With Armed Man

Five Reasons Why Humanoid Robots Will Someday Fight Our Wars

Cisco’s Streaming Media Boxes and HD Telepresence Gear for Average Joe

DIY Telepresence Robot Lets You Work At Work In Your Undies

WowWee’s Rovio Roving Webcam Detailed in Videos

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