Peter Hirst

Peter Hirst is associate dean of Executive Education at MIT Sloan School of Management.

Peter Hirst

Let’s pause on the robots-are-taking-over-our-jobs panic for a minute and take a look at how some robots — telepresence robots, specifically — could be used to give access not only…

The role of telepresence robotics in workforce inclusion

What if I told you that you could visit three continents in one day without leaving your office and truly feel like you were there in person? That you could…

Flipping the office telepresence model

How Telerobotics Can Reshape Our Workspace

12:30 pm PDT • October 8, 2015

At a conference last October, I encountered a fascinating “creature” named AVA that I mentioned in a blog post shortly afterwards. Though extraordinarily helpful in keeping a conversation going with…

How Telerobotics Can Reshape Our Workspace