Five Years of Exploring Robotic Telepresence

Google Tech Talks
October 16, 2008

ABSTRACT

A technical look at designing robots for the enterprise, how they can free us from time and space, and how they will spawn a new generation of collaboration, remote labor forces, and remote service industries.

Santa Monica based RoboDynamics now entering its fifth year is sending TiLR, its four foot tall robot into the real world and getting some real world feedback. The first TiLR was installed at the X PRIZE Foundation, assisting the Google Lunar X Prize team to communicate more effectively with various stakeholders around the world. Founder and CEO Fred Nikgohar discuss the challenges of designing a Robotic Telepresence platform with an emphasis on an open discussion about how this technology can transform the ways we live and work.

Speaker: Fred Nikgohar

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Science & Technology

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[dsmudger]

ditto plasticdingetje's comment - interesting stuff, but for a Google Tech Talk he's going waaay too slowly (it's like he's giving his standard sales pitch?) - he spends an unbelievable amount of time explaining very basic stuff, and I don't think the stick men cartoon was such a great choice for a technically literate audicence.

[plasticdingetje]

Interesting product, cool to see in action. I hope as a company they are succesfull.

Just starting, and already have some nice ideas for the future while also being realistic and have products now.

One point though, I think Fred could improve on his presentation skills :)

He was a little chaotic and he seemed a bit unprepared.

[GoogleLunarXPRIZE]

We love our TiLR. Way to go Fred ;)

[blockthisuser]

OMG can i actually leave my comment here.. lol