Video Friday: Robotic Telepresence, Pepper Helper, and a Long Journey

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your melodramatic Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. I'm not entirely sure why being "targeted" by a bird robot like this would appeal to kids, but here you go: Fun fact: this works with real seagulls too. "This is a demonstration of Engineered Art's telepresence app on its Robothespian Humanoid robot. Although recorded multiple times to capture different camera angles, what you are seeing is a real conversation with Robothespian. It is being controlled and voiced remotely over the internet. There is no trickery here. Although we scripted some of the conversation to ensure it was repeatable, none of the content was pre-programmed. It was all created in real time using a headset and the telepresence app. It is an excellent way to ensure genuine human interaction, without being tripped up with it's complexities."