Remotely projecting your presence has never looked so weird…
Many of the ideas surrounding the function and value of robots have to do with telepresence–the ability to project a personal likeness to a faraway location. Telenoid is designed specifically around that premise. Developed by Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR), the same people who brought us Geminoid, Telenoid is essentially a complex version of the iPhone’s FaceTime. On top of voice broadcast, the Telenoid mimics the facial and upper-body movement of its user (It is capable of eye movement; head tilting; opening its mouth; and limb movement) through a software system called FaceAPI.
Below is a video of the Telenoid in action. You can see it going through all the motions.
