Telepresence Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Double Robotics shows off its iPad-equipped robot

by Mike Schramm (Feb 1st, 2013)

We heard about Double Robotics and their plan to make an iPad-topped robot last year, but the real thing is running around the floor of Macworld/iWorld 2013 this week, and I think it's the coolest thing I've seen at the show. Company founder David Cann told me that Double was originally working ...

Double, the iPad telepresence robot rolls around the office when you can't

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 14th, 2012)

Get ready to see iPads zipping around your office. As a remote worker I'm fascinated by telepresence robots, or a remote robotic avatar which lives at an office and roams the halls under your control, typically interacting through a 2-way video chat tool. Naturally, Double Robotics took the ...

Daily iPad App: Fuze Meeting HD connects to telepresence systems

by Michael Rose (Mar 2nd, 2012)

The flexible Fuze Meeting web conferencing platform already had a very solid iOS story, with the ability to schedule and start meetings from the iPad (including multiparty HD videoconferencing). Now, with the recently released version 4.0 of the app, the company is building a bridge to corporate ...

Taptic Toys iPad telepresence robot roams the WWDC keynote line

by Steven Sande (Jun 6th, 2011)

If you were in the keynote line at WWDC this morning, you may have been approached by a robot bearing greetings and a smile. That robot, which rolls about on two wheels Segway-like, has an iPad for a head and was being controlled by one of the co-founders of Taptic Toys, Romina Espinosa, who ...

Confirmed: FaceTime for iPad 2 works with video out

by Steven Sande (Mar 15th, 2011)

This morning, fellow TUAW blogger Erica Sadun and I both played with the video out features of the new iPad 2. While Erica discovered that something is preventing her iPad 2 from working properly with the video mirroring function that is supposed to work with all of the various video adapters ...