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Dude sends robot replacement to work

I'm really surprised that telepresence/telerobotics hasn't caught on more than it has. IRobot was R&Ding this tech nearly a decade ago. And the tools to make it happen have only gotten cheaper and more widely distributed. In this story, reverberating around the Interwebs, Ivan Bowman, a computer programmer, works from his living room in Nova Scotia, while his "robot" (basically a remotely-controlled computer on wheels) named "IvanAnywhere" motors around the offices of his employer, iAnywhere Solutions, over 830 miles away, in Waterloo. As with the iRobot experiences and those of others who've played with tele-robotic presence since, co-workers soon forget that they're talking to a mobile coat rack and act as if Bowman is actually there. IvanAnywhere has even attended company parties.

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Posted by: whiskey_ on September 7, 2007 at 2:34 AM

Well, think of this as a way to extend your presence on the office, imagine being able to attend a Windows installation while doing something else somewhere.

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