I believe that telepresence is going to be big as we get further in this digital age. If you are not familiar with telepresence, it is a way of putting a camera on a robot that you can move around, so the boss is always on the scene.

The SociBot-Mini could be the latest thing in telepresence, but there is no moving body involved. This is just a bust of a statue that you can put a face on, literally. It has a head-mounted RGB camera, infrared depth sensor, two-way audio system, and a touchscreen interface. This amounts to a Kinect-like device that allows you to put a face on a statue-like head.

Okay, I am not certain what to think about this. I think it is good that we have the technology to see someone’s facial expressions, but do we really want to? It does look kind of creepy, doesn’t it?

Well, for all I know, this could be the wave of the future. This is currently a Kickstarter campaign and I would imagine that will easily get its money’s worth.

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