Conference Robot Connects Offices in Different Countries

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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Re:Didn't we have a similar story before?

[Osurak]

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