A student in Northern California didn’t let a rare disease stop him from graduating high school, attending classes with a ...

It looks like a cross between a Segway and Wall-E, but a new "telepresence" robot being unveiled Tuesday is designed to help companies save money on travel and expensive teleconferencing technology.

“Seventy per cent of communication is non-verbal,” says Tommaso Trionfi, cofounder and CEO of next-generation telepresence ...

With the growing success of asynchronous online classes, why are some schools adopting room-based telepresence systems for distance learning? The telepresence classrooms at Wharton's Philadelphia and ...

Taken in its broadest sense, TelePresence is the next generation of videoconferencing technology. It creates the impression that a conversation is taking place in one room when the participants may be ...

PALO ALTO, California – 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 ...

Earlier this year, Edward Snowden presented at TED2014. Wait... Isn't the NSA whistleblower hiding in an undisclosed location in Russia? And, if so, how did he make it onto the stage in Vancouver, ...

My first trip to Vietnam was inside the body of a remote-controlled robot. Instead of masking up and boarding a multi-hour flight across the world, the trip began when I logged into Zoom one Thursday ...

It won't be long before patients are able to pop into a conferencing booth in their town or village rather than having to travel to see a specialist or even a GP, if companies such as network ...

In schools where students want to take an advanced course that the school doesn't offer, the telepresence model, which enables students in one school to use videoconferencing to take a course offered ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Alpena Community College sits in ...