WIth the last day of February upon us, I have been doing a little bit of Spring Cleaning and seeing what other stuff has been out there in the past. In coming days, I will be bringing out some of the past content in robotic telepresence / remote presence to see where we are and where we are going.
If you know of some great historical data, please help us fill out the History of Remote Presence section of the Future of Remote Presence.
On to our links:
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- Korea’s Yujin Robot Jumps Into Educational Telepresence – (Plastic Pals) Once again, our friends find another great system that is going to be a contender in the RPS space. Yulin Robots get a jump into the space with a slight modification to their CAFERO robot calling it the ROBOSEM. And we will see about getting more details on this system in the near. (h/t: Plastic Pals)
- While NASA’s Robonaut 2 Is In Orbit, Its Hype Has Escape Velocity – (Singularity Hub) – Aaron seems to be a little down on the over-hype that is driving awareness of the Robonaut that is up in space with the Discovery today. In his words:
As I mentioned in the beginning, the serious damage from all this humanoid in space hype, however, is that it will obscure the real benefits that this ISS mission for Robonaut 2 could achieve. NASA has us expecting robots and humans acting together in some sort of Star Wars style mission. Robonaut 2 is not R2D2. You know what Robonaut 2 will be doing while at the ISS?
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RUMOR ALERT! We have been made privy to a (unconfirmed) rumor that a “big player” has been checking out one of the RPS companies we track. Sounds like the “big player” wants to advance into the RPS space ahead of other players. While this is simply a rumor, the fact that we are hearing of such rumors demonstrates how exciting the RPS market is becoming. We are looking further into the story to get more confirmed information and will get back to you in the near.
