Interfacing With a Mobile Telepresence Robot

This describes a robot that allows a remote user to explore a distant location. It uses a digital map with special tagged locations to understand its environment and perform specific actions, such as stopping or rotating its camera. A person can control the robot by selecting a destination on a live video feed or a map, or by using a joystick, all from a single interface, while the robot automatically avoids obstacles.

Why it matters: Filed before the latest wave of AI advancements in robotics. Modern computer vision and navigation algorithms could simplify the mapping, tag identification, and obstacle avoidance systems.

Status: Not in forceListed as no longer active. The specific reason is not in the record we hold.
How hard to build: SpecializedIntegrated hardware, complex navigation software

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