Smart Presence™ for Events
Without having to leave San Francisco, Scott Hassan, the CEO of Suitable Technologies, and Google Co-founder Sergey Brin get a tour of the Seoul Motor Show held at Kintex, in Goyang, Gyeonggi, on Tuesday by organizing committee Chairman Kim Yong-geun. The trio used the “telepresence” robot by Suitable Technologies called Beam. Provided by the organizing committee and Event Presence.
April 1st, Beam Store Palo Alto.
*UPDATE 3/27/15* — This Meetup will be graciously sponsored by O’Reilly Media! Hooray! We’re in the process of working out food and drink details, but please expect some level of complimentary refreshments.
Bots & Beer will be at the BEAM store in Palo Alto. Bring your robots or robot gear! Feel free to wear robot-themed clothing, a company logo on a hat or polo, or a robot conference t-shirt to get the robo-conversation going!
(Because you know we’re not very good at remembering name tags.)
*Can’t make it there in person? Do you want to Beam into the Meetup? Let us know! – Please contact the organizers by Monday, 3/30, at 9am.*
Bots&Beer will be at the BEAM store in Palo Alto. It’s going to be a BYO event. Bring your robots, or robot gear!
Do you want to BEAM into the meetup? Let us know – send us a reply.
Make it easy to find other ‘Botsers’ by bringing a robot, or wearing a robot themed clothing. Heck, even just company logo on a hat or polo shirt, or robot conference t-shirt.
(Because you know we’re not very good at remembering name tags.)
Suitable Technologies at CES 2015!
(Booth #30869, LVCC South Hall 2nd Floor)
Suitable Technologies develops BeamPro and Beam+: Smart Presence technology products that combine mobility and video conferencing to enable users to move about, speak, see and interact with friends and family – regardless of their location. Our mission is to give people of the world broader access to each other through face-to-face interaction.
to Kickoff CES!
Will.I.Am beamed in for 3DSystems‘ press event.
Nearly 100 people beamed into RoboBusiness 2013, hosted in Santa Clara, CA, from countries including Australia, Turkey, India, Japan, and more. A total of 127 hours of calls were made, equivalent to 5 days of continuous conversation, and the ability for participants to connect with different exhibitors via Beam was truly amazing. Attendees did not feel the pressure to obtain Visas or travel, and booth sponsors were able to showcase and sell products to folks who wouldn’t have otherwise been able to attend.
Suitable Technologies thanks RoboBusiness for working with us!
(http://www.robobusiness.com/)
When The Beam Team learned mad scientists from far, far, away wanted to go to ComicCon; we asked Weta Workshop for help. Together, knowing the mad scientists needed a special beam (one that could help them transcend space time), we developed a BeamPro perfectly suitable for the mad scientists’ adventures in San Diego.
RoboBusiness conference in Santa Clara, Calif. on Oct. 23-25 2013.
http://hackerboards.com/telepresence-bots-offer-remote-tours-of-robotics-show/
RoboBusiness is offering $50 rentals of the “Beam” mobile telepresence robot, so 50 robotics enthusiasts can remotely attend the RoboBusiness conference in Santa Clara, Calif. on Oct. 23-25. The Ubuntu- and ROS-based Beam will be available to the first 50 applicants, letting them explore the show at up to 1.5 meters/sec and interact with others via video conferencing.
The Beam is a good choice for remotely exploring conferences, saving users the cost and time of traveling to an event, says Suitable Tech. For example, RoboBusiness registration is $1,595, plus hotel and travel. The Beam might also help strike up conversations one might not otherwise engage in, although it’s likely to attract less attention at a robotics conference than at a typical tech event.
The bots will be allowed everywhere on the show floor as well as in conference rooms, and the show will be open late to accommodate remote users from distant time zones. Rentals for the duration of the show go for $50 for the whole conference for users who sign up by Oct. 21. Assuming some of the 50 bots are still available at that time, they will be available for $100 rentals starting Oct. 22. The RoboBusiness show itself starts the next day, and runs Oct.23-25. Some free press rentals are also said to be available.
Keynote speakers at the show include Dan Kara, Chief Research Officer at Myria RAS and Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics at Georgia Tech, speaking on robotics trends in general. Brendon Basso, a senior engineer at 3D Robotics, will discuss agricultural bots, and another keynote covers medical bots.
There are two keynotes on autonomous vehicles, one from Carnegie Mellon research professor Sanjiv Singh on autonomous aircraft, and another by Christ Urmson, Director of Google’s Self-Driving Cars project. Additional keynotes will be given by representatives of iRobot, CSIRO, Littler Mendelson, Nest Labs, and Aethon. Presentation tracks range from business issues, new markets and applications, robot design and development, and enabling technologies.
Yep! Even you can become a Beam Pilot.
