Botiful the Android Telepresence Robot

Botiful Is an Awesome Android Robot You Can Control via Skype | PCWorld

Imagine if you could talk to your family, kids or friends on Skype, while following them around, looking at whoever you want whenever you want, and walking around the room freely as if you were there. Sounds cool, right? Botiful, a prototype currently being funded on Kickstarter, integrates with Skype and carries your Android phone around, letting whoever you're talking to control it as they wish.

Source: Botiful Is an Awesome Android Robot You Can Control via Skype | PCWorld

Botiful, social telepresence robot for Android by Claire — Kickstarter

Source: Botiful, social telepresence robot for Android by Claire — Kickstarter

Botiful the Android telepresence robot (with video) - Accessories - News - HEXUS.net

The Botiful project information page suggests that Botiful is useful for;

• Skype video calls and video conferencing
• Baby monitoring
• Playing remotely with your children
• Safely inspect areas that are heard to get to, such as under the car
• Social events, almost be there when you can’t be present
• Visiting a place, while you are still at home
• Entertain and see a pet remotely

When a friend or colleague accepts a robot enabled video call you can see the following overlay upon the video display with which to control Botiful’s body and head motion. Below the directional interface there are extra robot app icons displayed.

Source: Botiful the Android telepresence robot (with video) - Accessories - News - HEXUS.net

Botiful telepresence robot is extremely cute | Ubergizmo

Similar to a computer mouse that runs on wheels, the Botiful is more than just another spot for your smartphone to rest. Functioning as a standalone device, whenever one places a Skype video call over it with the user, the Botiful telepresence robot will work to its primary ability. The caller is able to check out all of the directional controls which enable them to manipulate the Botiful so that it functions as an active segment of the conversation. As the handset is held in place using a magnet, it will communicate over a Bluetooth connection. On-screen directional controls also allows users to move it around so that there are different perspectives to view from.

Source: Botiful telepresence robot is extremely cute | Ubergizmo

Botiful bot makes telepresence easy and affordable - Liliputing

If you back the project for $199 you get one of the first 150 Botiful bots for your very own. Techie folks interested in developing for the Botiful can get access to the SDK for pledges of $245 and up. The goodies get more interesting as you go up in price.

Currently, the project isn’t fully backed yet, though they’re almost halfway to the $90,000 goal. iPhone owners, don’t feel left out. If the project gets $100,000 in backing they’ll work on an iOS version, too.

Source: Botiful bot makes telepresence easy and affordable - Liliputing

Related

• Botiful, social telepresence robot for Android by Claire — Kickstarter
• Botiful Is The Telepresence Robot We’ve All Been Waiting For | TechCrunch
• Botiful Social Telepresence Robot For Android Hits Kickstarter (video) » Geeky Gadgets
• Insert Coin: Botiful telepresence robot for Android (video) -- Engadget
• Botiful: a Tiny Skype-Powered Telepresence Robot - YouTube

TeleHuman & BodiPod: Telepresence with Holographic 3D Telepods

Holographic 3D Telepods May Revolutionize Videoconferencing -- Science & Technology -- Sott.net

A Queen's University researcher has taken inspiration from Star Trek to create an other-worldly way to meet with one another. Using a series of strategically placed projectors and Microsoft Kinect image sensors, Dr. Roel Vertegaal and his team at the Human Media Lab in Canada have created a human-scale 3D videoconferencing pod, allowing people in different places to meet with one another, just as if they were in the same room at the same time.

Source: Holographic 3D Telepods May Revolutionize Videoconferencing -- Science & Technology -- Sott.net

"Why skype when you can talk to a life-size 3D holographic image of another person?"

Source: TeleHuman Life-Size Hologram-Like Telepods Revolutionize Videoconferencing - YouTube

Beam me up Scotty: Life-size hologram-like telepods revolutionize videoconferencing | Human Media Lab :: Queen's University

While the technology may seem like it comes from a galaxy far, far away, it's not as complicated as most would think. Dr. Vertegaal and his team used mostly existing hardware – including an array of Microsoft Kinect sensors, a 3D projector, a 1.8 metre-tall translucent acrylic cylinder and a convex mirror.

The research team, also consisting of John Bolton, Kibum Kim, Peng Wang and McGill Prof. Jeremy Cooperstock, used the same Pod to create another application called BodiPod, which presents an interactive 3D anatomy model of the human body. The model can be explored 360 degrees around the model through gestures and speech interactions.

When people approach the Pod, they can wave in thin air to peel off layers of tissue.  In X-ray mode, as users get closer to the Pod they can see deeper into the anatomy, revealing the model’s muscles, organs and bone structure. Voice commands such as "show brain" or "show heart" will automatically zoom into a 3D model of a brain or heart.

Source: Beam me up Scotty: Life-size hologram-like telepods revolutionize videoconferencing | Human Media Lab :: Queen's University

The 'telehuman' pod creates a convincing 3D 'human' inside the glass tube, using a 3D projector and a specially shaped pane of glass

How the 'telehuman' creates a convincing 'hologram', using a 3D projector onto a specially shaped pane of glass

Source: May the Fourth be with you! Lab unveils 3D hologram communicator - just like the one in Star Wars | Mail Online

Related

• Queens' College Develops Telepod for Telepresence Where Participants Appear 3-D - Telepresence Options
• CANOE -- Technology: Researchers develop holograms for online chatting
• CHI 2012: It's the experience!
• Telepresence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anybots Telepresence Robot

Anybots Releases Segway-Style Telepresence Robot

They're here. After over a year of whetting robot fanatic appetites with the promise of a $15,000 Segway-like telepresence business bot, Anybots has finally started shipping the friendly-faced device named QB.

Collected from: Anybots Releases Segway-Style Telepresence Robot | Fast Company

Your Personal Avatar

Be part of the action at work from home or anywhere. All you need is a web browser and you can interact with the whole office, lab, factory, or warehouse. QB glides around smoothly and quietly, giving you total access and presence. Shipping in early 2011.

Collected from: Anybots - Your Personal Avatar

The Anybot is a 35-lb. robot equipped with a high-definition video camera (with two-way streaming video and zoom), wireless connection, and wheels (so the robot can move around to different rooms or locations within the office) that include collision avoidance technology. Users control the Anybot remotely using a web browser. When a user is done with the Anybot, another user can take control, allowing a single robot to be used for multiple meetings or purposes.

Collected from: Anybots Telepresence Robot

Collected from: YouTube - Testing My New Robot Body

Related

• Anybots begins shipping its telepresence robots today
• Lasers Engaged: Anybots Are Now Shipping
• Anybots Starts Shipping QB Telepresence Robot - IEEE Spectrum

Gostai Jazz Telepresence Robot

Gostai Jazz Telepresence Robot Unveiled - IEEE Spectrum

French robotics company Gostai is unveiling today a mobile robot called Jazz designed for "telepresence and telesurveillance."

The waist-high robot, which a user can remote control using a web-based interface, rolls on two wheels and has a head that can move in any direction, with a camera stuck on its forehead. The price starts at 7900 euros.

Collected from: Gostai Jazz Telepresence Robot Unveiled - IEEE Spectrum

YouTube - Telepresence with Gostai Jazz

Collected from: YouTube - Telepresence with Gostai Jazz

Gostai

Telepresence robot

Teleportation made real

 

Have you ever dreamt to be able to teleport yourself anywhere with a snap of your fingers? This is exactly what you can do now with Jazz Connect.

The principle is simple: the robot stands in a remote location and will serve as your personal avatar. It can move and perceive its surrounding with its embedded camera, speaker and microphone. Far away, in your office, you start your favorite web browser and connect to the robot through a simple web interface. You can see what it sees, and move it around to interact with the people there.

A new way of communicating

 

 

Unlike traditional videoconferencing systems, Jazz Connect is mobile and its head can rotate to give a sense of its surroundings. It is easily remote-controlled through an intuitive web interface, and it gives you more freedom to interact with the robot's surroundings the way you want.

Collected from: Gostai

Company profile

Gostai is born in March 2006, when Jean-Christophe Baillie founded the company to foster the development of Urbi, an innovative operating system for robotics. Since these early years, the company has continuously developed a whole set of software technologies for robotics and AI, and created an ecosystem of partners and users.

In 2010, as a culmination of years of expertize into software and hardware for robotics, Gostai launched its first telepresence autonomous robot: Jazz.

Collected from: Gostai

Sources

Gostai Jazz Telepresence Robot Unveiled - IEEE Spectrum

YouTube - Telepresence with Gostai Jazz

Gostai Company Profile

Gostai Jazz Connect

Related

SPECIAL REPORT: TELEPRESENCE - IEEE Spectrum

BBC News - Can avatars and hyper-real video conferencing replace business meetings?

Gostai 

Gostai Jazz

Cisco's Telemedicine -- Healthcare Anywhere, Anytime

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The Virtual Doctor Will See You Now

Cisco's medical director talks about how the Connected Care initiative will help transform national healthcare, based on her experience using HealthPresence to improve employee health at Cisco.

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Tour of Cisco's LifeConnections Health Center

Dr. Pam Hymel gives you an inside look into Cisco's on-site health center for employees and their dependents.

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Cisco Telemedicine Pilot Program Demonstrates a New Way to Deliver Health Services Across the Globe

Cisco HealthPresence Pilot Results From Scotland and California Show That More Than 95% of Patients Are Satisfied With Remote Care

By using a live high-quality video collaboration solution, Cisco HealthPresence makes it more convenient for patients to meet with their doctors and improves the efficiency of delivering the service for the health care provider. Ultimately, it extends the natural reach of health care providers, improves access and optimizes scarce clinical resources.

Cisco HealthPresence Virtual Clinic

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Cisco HealthPresence

Cisco HealthPresence is a new concept developed by the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) and prototyped at the Cisco Technology Centre. Cisco HealthPresence is based on market-ready Advanced Technologies. Using the network as a platform, Cisco HealthPresence combines state-of-the-art video, audio, and medical information to create an environment similar to what most people experience when they visit their doctor or health specialist.

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Cisco HealthPresence Video on Discovery Channel

Here is a short video that shows Cisco's vision for the future of HealthPresence and telepresence.

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Cisco Health Presence Short

A video overview of Cisco HealthPresence which combines Cisco TelePresence with medical telemetry.

clipped from en.wikipedia.org

Telepresence

Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance that they were present, or to have an effect, at a location other than their true location.

Sources:

1. The Virtual Doctor Will See You Now -> News@Cisco
2. YouTube - Tour of Cisco's LifeConnections Health Center
3. Cisco Telemedicine Pilot Program Demonstrates a New Way to Deliver Health Services Across the Globe -> News@Cisco
4. Cisco HealthPresence - Cisco HealthPresence - Cisco Systems
5. YouTube - Cisco HealthPresence Video on Discovery Channel
6. YouTube - Cisco Health Presence Short
7. Telepresence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Related:

1. Overview [Telepresence] - Cisco - Cisco Systems
2. The Return Of The House Call: Healthcare Anywhere, Anytime -> News@Cisco
3. The future of remote medical consultations - Cisco's Telemedicine Research - Telepresence Options
4. Cisco HealthPresence Update with Video Showing Cisco's Vision - Telepresence Options
5. HealthPresence Solutions - Google Videos

MITRE -- Head Tracking Visual Telepresence

Clipped from: YouTube - MITRE Immersive Vision System

MITRE Immersive Vision System

Demonstration of a highly responsive head tracked vision system used for visual telepresence.
http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/adva...

"With remote robot interaction we can use visual telepresence to trick users' brains into thinking their eyes have been transported onto the robot," says Kyle Fawcett. "This unlocks the brain's natural ability to build a mental model of the remote environment. The better our vision system mimics interaction with the remote environment, the more we tap into our brain's natural spatial mapping abilities."

Clipped from: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: MITRE immersive spherical vision system

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

MITRE immersive spherical vision system

MITRE scientists have worked out a solution to this latency problem replacing the limited field of view camera on the pan-tilt unit with a spherical vision camera which has no moving parts. The camera of choice is the Ladybug commercially sold by Point Grey Research in Canada. Stanford's Urban Challenge autonomous car also used the same camera for part of its perception system. This spherical vision system consists of 6 cameras which capture images simultaneously covering a large portion of the view sphere around it. Software stitches the images together into a single view in real-time. These spherical vision images are then available to the operator to view for any orientation of his head.

Clipped from: MITRE - News and Events - MITRE Publications - The MITRE Digest - Advanced Research - Immersive Vision Gives the Best Control to Military Robots

MITRE

Immersive Vision Gives the Best Control to Military Robots

Related:
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: MITRE immersive spherical vision system
MITRE - News and Events - MITRE Publications - The MITRE Digest - Advanced Research - Immersive Vision Gives the Best Control to Military Robots
MITRE develops hemispheric camera for visual telepresence - Engadget
Point Grey Research, Inc. - Digital Cameras for Industrial, Machine, and Computer Vision

Anybots QA -- A Telepresence Robot

Clipped from: Telepresence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Telepresence

Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance that they were present, or to have an effect, at a location other than their true location.

Telepresence requires that the senses of the user, or users, are provided with such stimuli as to give the feeling of being in that other location. Additionally, the user(s) may be given the ability to affect the remote location. In this case, the user's position, movements, actions, voice, etc. may be sensed, transmitted and duplicated in the remote location to bring about this effect. Therefore information may be traveling in both directions between the user and the remote location.

Clipped from: YouTube - Anybots QA Telepresence Robot - TFOT

Anybots QA Telepresence Robot - TFOT

The California based company Anybots demonstrated its telepresence QA robot during CES 2009. The QA robot weights 30 pounds (14 kg), has a height of 5 feet (152 cm) standing and 2 feet (61 cm) bending and will be used for telepresence, allowing a user to control the robot from across the globe using the internet while still seeing and being seen, talk and listen, and collaborate in ways and places never before possible.

Clipped from: Anybots

Experience Telepresence

QA operates simply, cleanly, and quietly while still giving you a full physical presence. It allows you to see and be seen, talk and listen, and collaborate in ways and places never before possible.

Technical Specifications

• Batteries: rechargeable Li ion, 4-6 hours of operation
• Connectivity: 802.11g wireless (optional 3G cellular)
• Cameras: two 5 MP color, with ir illuminator
• Video: 20 FPS @ 640×480 (depending on network)
• Audio: full duplex, high fidelity
• Display: 7 inch (18 cm) color LCD in chest
• Laser pointer: green 10 mW, points and draws shapes
• Navigation: LIDAR, 5.5 yard (5 meter) range
• Speed: up to 6 MPH (10 km/h)
• Wheels: two 12 inch (30 cm) diameter rubber
• Height: 5 foot (152 cm) standing, 2 foot (61 cm) bending
• Weight: 30 pounds (14 kg)
• Client software: PC and Mac compatible

Clipped from: YouTube - Anybots' New Telepresence Robot QA Video1

Anybots' New Telepresence Robot QA

Telepresence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anybots
GetRobo: QA - New Telepresence Robot from Anybots
Anybots rolls out QA, the telegenic telepresence robot- Engadget
Anybots’ QA telepresence robot
Live From CES: Will Physically Going to CES Become Obsolete? | Discoblog | Discover Magazine
Anybot Telepresence Robot » Coolest Gadgets

TANDBERG T-3 Telepresence System

Tandberg has introduced a new generation of telepresence products with HD video cameras, wideband stereo sound, and common room environments that make participants feel like they are in the same room.

clipped from www.telepresenceoptions.com TANDBERG Launches T3 Telepresence System New TANDBERG Immersive Telepresence Delivers Step Change through Aesthetics and Technology HD System Interoperability Extends Experience Enterprise-wide NEW YORK and OSLO, Norway, Oct 1, 2008--TANDBERG (OSLO: TAA.OL), the leading global provider of telepresence, high definition (HD) video conferencing and mobile video solutions, today unveiled the immersive TANDBERG Telepresence T3. clipped from en.wikipedia.org Telepresence Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance that they were present, or to have an effect, at a location other than their true location. clipped from www.tandberg.com Telepresence T3 The ultimate telepresence experience. Beautiful, immersive and simple, the T3 is visual collaboration taken to an entirely new level. Thousands of details work together to provide an exclusive, natural forum so you can meet as if you are in the same room. clipped from uk.youtube.com Here is a commercial for the new TANDBERG T-3 Telepresence System.

Related:
TANDBERG Launches T3 Telepresence System - Telepresence Options
Video Conferencing | Video Conference | Videoconferencing | TANDBERG Official Website
TANDBERG | Press Release
Tandberg Introduces Telepresence T3 System -- Telepresence -- InformationWeek
Telepresence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
LinkNotes: TelePresence Experience with 3D Holographic Display Technology
LinkNotes: Teleconferencing with Telepresence

Robotic Telepresence

RoboDynamics is a company that researches and develops advanced telepresence robots. The idea is creating robots which allow people to attend meetings remotely.

clipped from robodynamics.com What is Robotic Telepresence? Robotic Telepresence is the ability to transport yourself to a remote location without going there. clipped from smart-machines.blogspot.com TiLR: A telepresence robot in action The following promotional video explains using a simple cartoon how the company believes their telepresence robot can be used to add value to a company. Finally, the following Mahalo Daily video showcases the actual TiLR robot and its control software. clipped from robodynamics.com Introducing TiLR TiLR System Overview TiLR Robotic Telepresence is comprised of three distinct components, which include a robot (TiLR), a PC application (TCC), and a Robot Server (RS). clipped from robodynamics.com TiLR TiLR is the main state of the art attraction of our Robotic Telepresence Platform. Standing at four feet tall and featuring a bright 8" LCD and powerful Canon camera, TiLR is a unique blend of innovative technologies that enable Robotic Telepresence in a new, affordable way. clipped from robodynamics.com TiLR Command Center TCC enables you to log into TiLR remotely and control its movements.

Related:
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: TiLR: A telepresence robot in action
RoboDynamics Corporation - TiLR
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