Double Robotics Taking on Telepresence with Mobile iPad Base

Doing robotic telepresence is tricky. It's one of those things that sounds good on paper (you can virtually be anywhere, whee!), but when it comes to getting people to plunk down a pile of cash for the hardware, going commercial with the concept has proven to be more or less impossible outside of some very specific circumstances. Double Robotics, a startup out of Y Combinator, is taking a shot at the telepresence space with a slick new iPad-based platform called Double. When we say that Double is "iPad-based," it's literal: Double is pretty much just a mobile base for an iPad. You can log into the iPad from any computer or iOS device, and drive the robot around while streaming two-way audio and video lets you talk to people, go sightseeing, or do whatever else you want while remotely inhabiting the body of a robot. The iPad can be extended vertically from three and a half ...

Full article: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/d...

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@leo_programer » 15 Aug '12, 1am
usando una tablet como robot de tele-presencia! [link] pretty cool isn't it??
@simonsmith » 15 Aug '12, 12am
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Have an iPad or 2 and $2,000? Then you've got (slick) robotic telepresence. Looks like the industry is heating up. [link]
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