Inventions' wonderful world on display at Microsoft fair
Seattle Times | at | by Mike
Microsoft might be on the verge of its best office invention yet: a self-charging robot slave that goes to meetings in your place. Imagine the hooky-playing possibilities that Robie the Robot could create. You can control the robot from a personal computer, using its two-way audio and video technology to participate by proxy. You also could send Robie out to the water cooler to talk shop with co-workers' Robies.
Robie isn't even close to being sold at stores, but it was one of dozens of inventions on display yesterday at a research fair Microsoft hosted for hundreds of university faculty visiting the company this week.