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On the road to holographic video: Improvement in holographic telepresence

News: Communications    November 3, 2010
Holographic video display…..Credit: University of Arizona A video screen that refreshes the image every two seconds doesn’t do wonders for motion or animation, but it’s a darned sight better than three minutes between refresh. That’s the progress made by Nasser Peyghambarian and Pierre-Alexandre Blanche at the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona [...]
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Halfway between robot and avatar

Impact: Robotics    September 8, 2010
Telerobot physician consulting with nurse………….credit: InTouch Technologies, Inc. What’s halfway between an autonomous robot and an avatar? You’ve probably seen avatars in the movies (James Cameron’s Avatar being the prime example). No doubt you’ve also seen various kinds of (semi) autonomous robots that move about under their own power and have a kind of intelligence, [...]
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New Product: A telecommuting telepresence robot named QB

News: Robotics    May 20, 2010
The telepresence robot, ”QB”. . Credit: Anybots, Inc. As a field of study and product development, it is in the nature of robotics, as often as not, to want to emulate the human being. Why this should be so given that the erect and bipedal human being is already an engineering nightmare, speaks to our [...]
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