What happens when you put a telepresence robot online for the world to try out for free? Hilarity of course. Double Robotics is a company that builds telepresence robots. The particular robot in ...

Desktop videoconferencing has arrived at last — or at least Cisco hopes it has. The company on Monday announced a version of its increasingly popular TelePresence system for use in individual offices: ...

Cisco in December ceased selling new Umi personal telepresence hardware, although the networking titan says it will continue to support existing Umi customers for the forseeable future. "While we are ...

Many drones come with cameras, but Google thinks a drone with a projector could be the answer to mobile telepresence conferencing. Drones could be a threat to pets and powerlines, so Google has come ...

First up, Cisco launched the TelePresence System 500, a high-definition video conferencing solution for personal offices. According to Cisco, the smaller form-factor offers many of the qualities of ...

The new version of the high-definition video conferencing system is designed for personal use and costs less than $35,000. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...

Microsoft held its annual Ignite conference this past September in Atlanta, Georgia, and I had the good fortune to attend. I did not fly to the event. There were no hotels. I simply logged into a ...

Songdo, a green sustainable city being built from scratch in South Korea, will be a grand telepresence experiment. How will residents interact when telepresence systems are installed in every home ...

Cisco TelePresence System 500, installed in the private office, is designed for remote one-on-one meetings or for joining larger meetings. It features lifelike, high-definition (720p or 1080p) video ...

Sabre Travel Network and Cisco are jointly developing a vendor-agnostic distribution system for travel agencies, corporations and meeting planners to book telepresence suites, the companies announced ...

A mechanic working at an American Audi dealership is stumped by a problem with a car. Solving the problem would be so much easier if a technician from the manufacturing plant in Germany could look ...