Conferencing Robot doing the business

This screen perched atop a platform, with a rather precariously placed webcam atop it, is a Minneapolis-based firm’s answer to their video conferencing issues. It’s a robot, that’ll chat online with other ‘bots, as well as wheeling ’round premises to keep employees in touch anywhere.

At just over five feet and weighing 215 pounds the futuristic vision of Ronnie Corbett is used by PowerObjects Inc, an IT development and consulting firm, to communicate effectively between their US offices and a development team in Islamabad.

The fully remote controlled machine can be in the design department one minute, off to accounts the next and perhaps a sneak peek at that hot temp.
Conventional video conferencing had been discarded as too expensive and less convenient and so led to the development of POGO at a cost of around $9,000, now team members can chat instantly and use white boards and the like to explain concepts much more easily and quickly.

After 6 months at the firm POGO now has his own parking space.

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