Re:Inside Anybots And The Rise of Human-Size Telepresence Ro...
by ErrantX on Sunday July 11, 2010 @06:24PM
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I like this idea; but I can't see it working on a massive commercial scale quite yet. The Robot is a bit impersonal in my mind.
As I see it there are three main uses; monitoring a remote office by a manager, teleconferencing and "the boss is working from home again".
The latter doesn't strike me as a good boss. Remote monitoring is a reasonable use but it seems like a lot of money to achieve that. And teleconferencing; well, it seems a solid market, but studies have shown that people still much prefer voice calls to video chat - so this seems another hard sell in reality.
As I see it there are three main uses; monitoring a remote office by a manager, teleconferencing and "the boss is working from home again".
The latter doesn't strike me as a good boss. Remote monitoring is a reasonable use but it seems like a lot of money to achieve that. And teleconferencing; well, it seems a solid market, but studies have shown that people still much prefer voice calls to video chat - so this seems another hard sell in reality.
There is a future in this though.