SFGate l More Realistic Video Chat with Ohmni Robot

by | Oct 5, 2020 | Media, Telepresence

This Silicon Valley company built a robot to make video chat more realistic

I will say the telepresence robot made it a lot easier for me to do my job as a journalist. Seeing the factory floor firsthand allowed me a perspective I wouldn’t have had otherwise, given coronavirus safety precautions. If I had a loved one in the hospital whom I couldn’t visit, I can understand how the ability to move around their space and reposition myself beside their bed would add a sense of agency and connection that would make an awkwardly-angled FaceTime chat seem comparatively sterile.

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