ADVISORY/HP Travel Robot Featured at Next ''Friday at Labs''.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Friday (May 23) --(BUSINESS WIRE) HP (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HPQ HPQ Hewlett-Packard Corporation (NYSE) HPQ High Priority Queue )
What: "Fridays at Labs" -- a series giving media the opportunity
to check out cool technologies and meet today's thought
leaders at HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif.
Next event: "HP Travel Robot Lets You Be Two Places at Once."
Face it, business travel isn't what is used to be. SARs, terrorism and cost-cutting are just some of the reasons many companies are reducing or eliminating travel. However, the global economy still demands national and international collaboration for successful businesses. And as any executive will attest To solemnly declare verbally or in writing that a particular document or testimony about an event is a true and accurate representation of the facts; to bear witness to. To formally certify by a signature that the signer has been present at the execution of a particular writing so as , the telephone, e-mail and even video conferences aren't as good as actually "being there." But HP Labs researchers are working on a way to take remote communication to the next level. They have created a robot with 360-degree audio and life-size video that can roam the halls of a remote site, all controlled via a wired or wireless network. The system essentially allows a person to be in two places at the same time, using the robot as a stand in: Attend a meeting, wander from office to office and even whisper See WISPr. an aside to someone -- all from a thousand miles away. Reporters are invited to come and see a demonstration at HP Labs and try their hand at driving their own personal robot Like the Personal Computer, the Personal Robot is one that will change the use of robots from being large, expensive, and hard to use, to being small, inexpensive, and easy to use. doppelganger doppelgänger Psychiatry A delusion that a double of a person or place exists elsewhere; it is related to other defects in recognition and suggests organic disease in the nondominant parietal lobe. See Depersonalization disorder, Schizophrenia. .
When: Friday, May 23, 10-11 a.m. PST
Where: HP Labs, 1501 Page Mill Road (at Peter Coutts Road)
Who: Media by RSVP only.
RSVP: Michael Burk, Hill and Knowlton, +1 415 281 7139,
michael.burk@hillandknowlton.com or
Dave Berman, HP, +1 650 857 7277,
dave_berman@hp.com.
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