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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

The gadgets, called telepresence robots, were designed to allow doctors to conduct rounds from a distance and corporate executives to visit remote facilities.

From Science Magazine Feb. 9, 2022

That’s one other way to think about applications on the metaverse: you can have a hologram or a telepresence of somebody in front of you.

From The Verge Jan. 11, 2022

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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