I'm exploring the headquarters of Suitable Technologies in Palo Alto, Calif., passing leather couches, paintings and large indoor plants. Only I'm not really here; I'm on a laptop at my desk in ...

Many drones come with cameras, but Google thinks a drone with a projector could be the answer to mobile telepresence conferencing. Drones could be a threat to pets and powerlines, so Google has come ...

What happens when you put a telepresence robot online for the world to try out for free? Hilarity of course. Double Robotics is a company that builds telepresence robots. The particular robot in ...

Cisco in December ceased selling new Umi personal telepresence hardware, although the networking titan says it will continue to support existing Umi customers for the forseeable future. "While we are ...

Double Robotics gives iPad wheels and lets you ‘be there’ without being there. Telepresence robots allow you to “be” in a remote place by providing mobility, vision, and audio on a platform you ...

Microsoft held its annual Ignite conference this past September in Atlanta, Georgia, and I had the good fortune to attend. I did not fly to the event. There were no hotels. I simply logged into a ...

Cisco Systems is taking several steps to extend its TelePresence videoconferencing technology beyond enterprise meeting rooms, introducing two endpoints and a free client application for ad hoc ...

The new version of the high-definition video conferencing system is designed for personal use and costs less than $35,000. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...

Real-time translation of Cisco Systems TelePresence virtual meetings, which a company executive said late last year would arrive in 2009, has proved much more difficult than the company expected. The ...