Tuesday, January 14, 2014

When do you call a metal arm on which an ipad can sit a robot?

From the Presence newsletter I received the news items labelled:

"The robot that doesn’t roam: KUBI ditches the wheels for stronger interaction".

But to my surprise when I followed the link to the Revolve Robotics website (the manufacturer of KUBI), it just showed a metal arm that is fixed to the location but very moveable.
This development of KUBI is interesting to me since I did appropriate existing software and devices for my Teletalker system too. To me it was obvious that Telepresence did not need wheels, when it's about connecting two static locations. But now I wonder, when do you actually call a device or a construction a robot?
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