Would help to say (video) in the title, that said its a pretty content free piece on tele-presense robotics with the hook of a young man who used one during post marrow transplant isolation to communicate with the outside world. As bandwidth improves these will improve. Having seen the difference between using a 720P web cam essentially as the remote view sensor and three 1080p cameras fused into a wrap around 180 degree view, the latter is clearly a more "immersive" experience but also a much higher bandwidth challenge.
Nice plug for Anybots too, the featured robot of the piece.
For additional context for people not watching the video / clicking through: this is a kid who had a bone marrow transplant and was in isolation for two months, and was temporarily donated a telepresence robot.
Seems like a great idea for such enforced-isolation cases. You aren't reliant on other people coming to you to interact (though yeah, someone has to cart the thing around), so you spend a lot more time around (a much larger number of) people.
This reminded me of the Big Bang Theory episode "The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification". Except in that episode, Sheldon was only using a telepresence robot because he was afraid that some mishap would kill him before the singularity.
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Also, the sarcastic voice over sounds more Channel 4 than BBC.
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Nice plug for Anybots too, the featured robot of the piece.
Seems like a great idea for such enforced-isolation cases. You aren't reliant on other people coming to you to interact (though yeah, someone has to cart the thing around), so you spend a lot more time around (a much larger number of) people.
Turns out it was a different form of "living as a robot"