bashford:

This new telepresence robot by Tobita Hiroaki and his team at Sony Computer Science Laboratories floats around with the remote user’s face projected onto it.

“The project is still in the early stages, and researches will soon begin testing the unit on users to gauge their reactions to interacting with a floating, disembodied head. Already, Hiroaki  says that his colleagues have described the experience as “very strange.”

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