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Conference Robot Connects Offices in Different Countries

Posted by timothy on from the bridging-gaps dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With travel getting so expensive this sure would be a neat way to connect people in separate offices and not just when they are overseas: 'Minneapolis-based PowerObjects Inc. has created an innovative tool to communicate with its development team in Islamabad, Pakistan. It's a 5-foot-3-inch, 215-pound robot called POGO — a sort of rolling, computer-screen on wheels mounted with a webcam that bears a slight resemblance to the R2D2 of "Star Wars" fame.'"

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  1. Re:Didn't we have a similar story before? by Osurak · · Score: 5, Informative

    About a guy who "telecommutes" via a robot avatar in the office? Not that this thing isn't interesting on its own. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/04/2330219
  2. HeadThere Giraffe by oogie · · Score: 2, Informative
    I've been working to commercialize a similar robot for the past few years:


    http://www.headthere.com/

    -Dan