Anybots
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Anybots Inc. is a robotics company founded in 2001 by Trevor Blackwell. It is located in Mountain View, CA. In July 2012 David Rogan stepped in as CEO[1]
Robots
Q(X)
Q(X) also known as the QX is the latest Robot from Anybots. It supports a 21 inch display, or 1 or 2x 15.6 inch screens. It supports 1080p60 High Def video conferencing, 64x zoom camera, and crystal clear audio. It's designed to work with a Polycom Group 500 video conferencing system as supports standard H.323 and SIP video conferencing.[2] [3]
It's modular design allows for customer specified Payloads to be included and alternate conferencing systems.
First units are shipping at of December 2013.
QB
QB is a two-wheeled, gyroscopically stabilized remote telepresence unit driven via the Cloud by pretty much any web browser. The user can log in to the Anybots.com website, select one of a range of bots located around the world, and drive it off the charging station to interact with people and explore without needing to leave their desk. All that is needed onsite is power, WiFi or 3G/4G. On-board is a touch screen display, speaker and microphone plus a laser for pointing at objects.
Applications include marketing[4], remote experts, a remote lobby service (where receptionists can remotely ‘bot in’ to greet and guide clients), museum guides, education, and translation services in airports and public spaces, remote property tours provided to foreign clients by real estate agents (engendering trust in that the client can drive them-self around), mobile exhibition attendants and security patrols, as well as the more mundane business meeting presence.
It's also be very useful for the handicapped, severely disabled, [5] [6] and sick children. [7][8]
Anybots are available to purchase in the United States (as of Summer 2010) , Japan, and Europe.
QA
QA, debuted at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show is the first of Anybots' two telepresence Robots.[9] QA, a 5-foot-tall (1.5 m), 35-pound (16 kg) robot,[10] balances on two wheels, like a Segway,[11] has 5-megapixel cameras, two-way audio and a laser pointer for gesturing.[12] You can connect to QA through regular WiFi [13]
The robot was never produced commercially[14]
Dexter
Dexter is a compliant, dynamically balancing bipedal humanoid robot research project. [15] It is learning to walk and can jump, with its feet clearing the ground for a third of a second. [16] Because it uses pneumatics as actuators, its joints are compliant and provide a springy restoring force, much like a human's tendons, allowing it much greater capability to deal with obstacles.[17] [18]
Monty
Monty is a telemanipulation prototype. He picks things up with an 18 degree of freedom hand [19] and is operated remotely through the use of a suit that includes a special glove.
References
- ^ Anybots Names David Rogan as Chief Executive Officer
- ^ VideoTechnology: Anybots creates new virtual presence robot in partnership with Polycom Inc.
- ^ Anybots creates new virtual presence robot in partnership with Polycom Inc.
- ^ Coca-Cola presents: The Social Robot
- ^ Disabled Gain Freedom
- ^ Creative Communication: Using iPads, iPods, and even Robots as communication devices via Mac OS X.
- ^ NBC: Bay Area Boy Makes a "Wish," Gets Robotic Tour
- ^ BBC: Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months
- ^ Engadget: Anybots rolls out the QA Telegenic Telepresence Robot
- ^ Pocket Lint: Anybots unveils QA telepresence robot CES 2009: Be anywhere in the world, without actually being there
- ^ Live From CES: Will Physically Going to CES Become Obsolete?
- ^ Business robot debuts at CES
- ^ SF Examiner: Anybots rolls out QA, the telegenic telepresence robot
- ^ Las Vegas Sun: Teleconferencing robot
- ^ none BBC: Walking robot steps up the pace
- ^ Researchers Dream of Humanizing Androids
- ^ Tech Digest: Anybots: the world's first dynamically balancing robot
- ^ YouTube: Anybots' Dexter Jumps (March 2008)
- ^ Engaget: Robot walks independently with dynamic balancing
External links
- Official website
- What is an Anybot? (video)
- getrobo
- dvice article about QA
- TFOT magazine anybots video - from CES 2009
- YouTube: Jeri Ellsworth - Cyborg Jeri trying a demo of Dexter operating over immersive telepresence with AR VR Augmented reality Virtual Reality style controls.