Beam, a mobile video-conference robot, gives workers physical presence in office
Photo credit: AP | Bo Preising, Suitable Technologies' vice president of engineering, at left, talks with fellow engineers Josh Faust, center on screen, and Josh Tyler, on screen at right, who are both using a Beam remote presence system in Palo Alto, Calif. (Dec. 12, 2012)
Beam, mobile video telepresence robot, gives workers presence on site
Engineer Dallas Goecker attends meetings, jokes with colleagues and roams the office building just like other employees at his company in Silicon Valley.
But Goecker isn't in California. He's more than 2,300 miles away, working at home in Seymour, Indiana.
It's all made possible by the Beam — a mobile video-conferencing machine that he can drive around the Palo Alto offices and workshops...
