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Facetime + iPad + Segway = Virtual Physical Presence
- jaysonelliot 15y agoWe use VGo telepresence robots at our company right now; there are a few other companies in the space as well. An engineer from Google has semi-famously made a nice homebrew rig with an iRobot base and a netbook: http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2011/02/low-cost-video-chat-robot.html http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2011/02/low-cost-video-... I'm guessing this unit would run around 12-15k as a product, based on the hardware involved. Right now, the VGo, which I consider the best solution on the market, costs $6k per robot. The big advantage I'd see from a Segway-based solution would be stability and driveability. What's really needed is better peripheral vision and A/V qualities - not something the iPad can deliver right now, but something I think this kind of rig would really do well if it had.