Not impressed, just stick gum on the video camera :) On Sunday, April 27, 2014, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh so 21st century! See: > > > http://www.irobot.com/us/learn/commercial/ava500.aspx?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Brand_Ava%20500 > > Long predicted in sci fi, there are now robots that roam around > corporations and factories with hi-def video monitors giving people > "virtual presence." Yes, it as creepy as you imagined. See the video on > this page. It sort of reminds me of someone in an electric wheelchair. > > Anything which reduces coach-fare business trips is a good thing as far as > I am concerned. > > These things cost $65,000 each so they will not be widespread overnight. > > Someday there will be a meeting at which everyone attending is embodied by > one of these things. People will wonder why they did not simply make it a > fully electronic. My guess is that these things will never be widespread > for use in offices. They are an interim solution halfway between today's > real office and a fully virtual "office" which consists only of people in > individual offices either at home or in rented satellite office space. > > For use in factories, laboratories, farms, indoor farms, and other places > where there are structures, machines and objects you need to deal with, > these machines may be the wave of the future. > > - Jed > >
