Telepresence

Ken Goldberg Telegarden project

Telepresence/Robotics

Use of communication and computing technology to allow a person to act on events at a distance. Typically the user can control robots or other devices and monitor results via video, sound, force feedback, and/or vr immersive interfaces.

Links to Telepresence and Robotics Research Sites

Ubiquitous Telepresence Project (links to research and devices on Internet)
University of Strathclyde Transparent Telepresence Group

Paper on Concept of Telepresence (Ditton,Lombard)

Goldberg Books on Telepresence: Robots on the Web: Physical Interaction through the Internet, The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology on the Internet
AROMA - methods of augmenting remote presence
Telerobotics/ VR image bank
Description of MIT Press Presence Journal (Teleoperators and Virtual Environments)
NASA Space Telerobotics project
Presence-research.org (links to research centers, projects, people)
National Tele-Immersion Initiative
NASA Mars Pathfinder Mission
Toy Robots Initiative (projects) (includes insect telepresence project)

Links to Internet Controllable Devices

Yahoo list of devices connected to Internet
Mark's list of interactive devices
University of Western Australia Telerobot (move arm)
Bsy's list of devices connected to Web
Thingy's on the Net
Telepresence controllable micro blimp
CMU Xavier (can move robot around offices)

Links to Robot Sites

Cool Robot Of The Week (NASA)
Robotics Internet Resources Page (UMass - list of university research, hobbyist sites, by country, etc.)
Android World - anthropomorphic robots & animatronics
The Tech Museum: Robotics: Sensing, Thinking, Acting
Robot Information Central (faq, robot construction, competitions, toys, electronics, sensors, motors, computer cvontrol, movies, research, walking robots, robots for the disabled - extensive)
The GoRobotics Network (amateur robots information site)
Ragman's Robotics Links (alife,hardware, engineering, by region-events, organizations,suppliers)
Frank Scott Hexapod insect robots

Artist Telepresence and Robot sites

Stephen Wilson - Links to Artists Experimenting with Telepresence
Ken Goldberg "Telegarden" and "Mercury Project"
Stelarc (remote control of bodies)
Personal ROving Presence
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (bodies occupying same space - The Trace) paper "Perverting Technological Correctness"
Telepresence Research, Inc. Home Page (Scott Fisher)
Yahoo list of robotic sculpture Yahoo list of robot artists
Art and Robotics Group
ARG Links to Artists using Robotics Technology and to Artist Groups

Tech Information on inexpensive computer mediated device controllers

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