The robot that visits your cubicle - CNN.com
uhhhhh. i dunno. Why not just go into the office and do the same thing?
seeing and hearing a new country are not the same as actually going there and tasting and smelling and feeling and dying
wtf is this shit
this use makes sense
The 5-foot-6, 35-pound robot contains a video camera, a still camera and a microphone. From a laptop, Blackwell can see everything the robot sees. He hears what the robot hears. And, when he talks, the robot projects his voice.
At $15,000, the QB is designed for commercial clients now, Blackwell said, but he thinks consumer robots aren't too far off. People could use them to go on remote vacations, he said, touring the streets of a faraway country or interacting with the locals without ever leaving their bedrooms.
uhhhhh. i dunno. Why not just go into the office and do the same thing?
seeing and hearing a new country are not the same as actually going there and tasting and smelling and feeling and dying
wtf is this shit
this use makes sense
but couldnt they do that with a webcam anyway?Do you see uses for this outside of the office?
Definitely. One of the big uses is in factories. We use it in our factory, which is actually just on the other side of town. But so many factories are in Asia.
The advantage is, you can have your most experienced engineer go look at that thing coming off the production line instantly, rather than having to send someone there who has to be a generalist and has to spend a day flying there.
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