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telepresence

British  
/ ˈtɛlɪˌprɛzəns /

noun

  1. the use of virtual reality technology to operate machinery by remote control or to create the effect of being at a different or imaginary location

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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For teammates, the VRoxy robot automatically mimics the user's body position and other vital nonverbal cues that are otherwise lost with telepresence robots and on Zoom.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023

According to reporting in Forbes, employees returning to Twitter HQ last week discovered “modest bedrooms featuring unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant conference-room telepresence monitors… one room even has a plant.”

From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2022

Ahumada’s work similarly finds a mix of promise and complexity, as have the few other studies that have looked at telepresence robots used in schools.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 9, 2022

Instead of having an advanced AI robobrain, it just has a human controlling it, like a more functional version of the iPad-on-wheels telepresence robots.

From The Verge ● Sep. 30, 2021

In time, Suneep and his gang would have a batch of telepresence robots up and running, and we’d move to them, get them wandering the queue area, interacting with curious guests.

From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow

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