Double Robotics telepresence robots, marketed as a mobile conferencing tool giving remote workers a physical presence at an office, were recently patched against vulnerabilities that could be abused by an attacker.
The concept of telepresence, of virtually being somewhere that you’re not, has been a driving force behind this march of progress. However, this “presence” is generally a one-dimensional experience. The dream of true telepresence still eludes us. Its Gender Swap experiment saw two people wearing cameras and Oculus Rift headsets synchronize movements and swap bodies. […]
Corporations will use robotic sensing, modeling and telepresence to break out of the digital world, infusing all the marketing and monetizing know-how they have honed into a much larger universe of mixed, digital-physical reality.
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