Botiful - miniature telepresence robot

Now in most regions of our planet there is no problem in a couple of seconds to contact a person located thousands of kilometers away. This is facilitated by the development of network technologies and the miniaturization of gadgets. Now, even most entry-level smartphones can be used as a means of video communication, provided there is a high-speed wireless network, of course. As a result of this rapid development of network technologies, various devices began to appear, providing telepresence.

Some of these devices are very expensive, others are more or less available. But soon the smallest telepresence robot in the world, the Botiful bot, may appear on the market for such devices. This bot is a new project on Kickstarter . As a “brain”, a conventional smartphone based on the Android OS is used.
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The device is focused on the usual consumer market, and not on the corporate market. Such a device can be used well at home, including communication with children. Botiful can be used to communicate with children, the device allows you to constantly be with your child, if the parents are constantly at work, on trips.

The first 150 Botiful copies will cost $ 199. In addition, the purchase of a bot with access to the SDK will cost $ 245. The total cost of the project on Kickstarter is 90 thousand US dollars. If the project collects 100 thousand, Botiful will be released under iOS.

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