Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. The world of technology is rapidly shifting from flat media viewed in the third person to immersive media experienced in the first person. Recently dubbed "the metaverse," this major transition in mainstream computing has ignited a new wave of excitement over the core technologies of virtual and augmented reality. But there is a third technology area known as telepresence that is often overlooked but will become an important part of the metaverse. While virtual reality brings users into simulated worlds, telepresence (also called telerobotics) uses remote robots to bring users to distant places, giving them the ability to look around and perform complex tasks.

Torrey Smith, Co-Founder of Endiatx, is changing the reputation endoscopies have for being uncomfortable. At Endiatx, they are developing a pill-sized robot that you swallow, which will then livestream your digestive system for a doctor to view. Our interviewer Abate dives in. Torrey Smith Torrey Smith is the Co-Founder & CEO of Endiatx, a medical robotics company that manufactures tiny robotic pills capable of active movement inside the human stomach with control over internet protocol. Prior to launching Endiatx, he developed medical devices in the areas of endometrial ablation, atherectomy, therapeutic hypothermia, sleep apnea, and vascular closure. An aerospace engineer by training, he takes a keen interest in the deep tech sector and is a proud mentor of up-and-coming founders at the Founder Institute. He is also the principal founder of the international arts collective known as Sextant, and he has had his art featured in the Smithsonian. Abate De Mey: Welcome to the robo hub podcast. Super excited to have you on here. So Torrey, could you introduce yourself a little bit? Well, you know, I originally originally studied aerospace engineering because my goal was to build the future of science fiction that I had read about as a kid. I had some relatives you know, come down with some gnarly health conditions. I lost an aunt to a brain cancer. I became very passionate about the world of medical devices and maybe more importantly, just health and technology and how we can merge those. Because I, I think if you asked a 14 year old kid who reads science fiction, what they think the future of healthcare looks like, they would probably say, oh, it's going to be like nano robots. That would go in like an army of tiny machines and kill any tumor. And then if you ask a doctor, Hey, I've got a glioblastoma. The doctor's going to say, well, we're going to cut an incision over here. I'm going to cut out a piece of your skull and put it in a steel dish. Then I'm going to go in and do my best to remove some of this brain tumor. And we're going to put you back together. We're going to put you on drugs. You know, we'll put you on chemo and you know, in six to nine months, you're going to be dead. And my question is simple.