That is something we worry about. There seems to be a little bit of a disconnect at first, like interactions that happen in a computer screen are somehow less r

That is something we worry about. There seems to be a little bit of a disconnect at first, like interactions that happen in a computer screen are somehow less real than face to face ones. The hope is that bumping in to people with a robot is sort of like making faces in a teleconference: it's maybe something you do when you are first trying it out, but once you start using it for actual work you stop. I know that we have certainly moved past that here using them (we use them to keep in communication with our manufacturer). Hopefully having 2 way video + the fact that the robots will be used almost exclusively in business settings will help us avoid the Penny Arcade Internet Fuckwad Theory http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/ http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/