Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months [video]

Would help to say (video) in the title, that said its a pretty content free piece on tele-presense robotics with the hook of a young man who used one during post marrow transplant isolation to communicate with the outside world. As bandwidth improves these will improve. Having seen the difference between using a 720P web cam essentially as the remote view sensor and three 1080p cameras fused into a wrap around 180 degree view, the latter is clearly a more "immersive" experience but also a much higher bandwidth challenge.

Nice plug for Anybots too, the featured robot of the piece.

For additional context for people not watching the video / clicking through: this is a kid who had a bone marrow transplant and was in isolation for two months, and was temporarily donated a telepresence robot.

Seems like a great idea for such enforced-isolation cases. You aren't reliant on other people coming to you to interact (though yeah, someone has to cart the thing around), so you spend a lot more time around (a much larger number of) people.

Auto play == not good.

Also, the sarcastic voice over sounds more Channel 4 than BBC.

Saw the title and immediately thought of http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s08e02-awesom-...

Turns out it was a different form of "living as a robot"

This reminded me of the Big Bang Theory episode "The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification". Except in that episode, Sheldon was only using a telepresence robot because he was afraid that some mishap would kill him before the singularity.

And now that kid will grow up to join Daft Punk.

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