December 2nd, 2012

Backed Or Whacked: A Smartphone Robot For Playtime And Panorama-Style Mobile HD Video

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Editor’s note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive.

High-quality videoconferencing was once the exclusive province of rich institutions with dedicated high-speed connections. Two recent Kickstarter projects take iPhone video interaction to places it has never been before. → Read More

October 16th, 2012

Romo, The iPhone-Powered Robot, Grows Up

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The first Romo was a cute little hand-made robot with a cute little face that roamed around the room, turning your phone into a rat-sized telepresence rig. The Romo folks, Romotive, are based in Las Vegas and they assembled each Romo 1.0 by hand and shipped them out last winter. → Read More