{"id":4796,"date":"2012-09-10T19:03:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T01:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2012-09-10T19:03:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T01:03:11","slug":"your-body-double-could-be-this-robot-some-call-%e2%80%98facetime-on-wheels%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4796","title":{"rendered":"Your Body Double Could Be This Robot Some Call \u2018FaceTime On Wheels\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/venturecapital\/2012\/09\/10\/your-body-double-could-be-this-robot-some-call-facetime-on-wheels\/\">Lora Kolodny<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><I>Though the first one hasn\u2019t even come off the production line yet, the makers of a new \u201ctelepresence\u201d robot called the \u201cDouble\u201d attracted more than $1 million worth of preorders within three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a Segway for your iPad,\u201d quipped David Cann, founder and chief executive of Miami-based Double Robotics, at Y Combinator\u2019s Demo Day in August, where he showed off the robot\u2019s capabilities to investors.<\/p>\n<p>Connecting an iPad to the Double turns it into a roving telepresence device. The first edition Double features an aluminum base, urethane and plastic wheels, custom control systems and iOS software that lets a user remotely drive the robot, video chat with those who it encounters, and peer into the spaces where it roams.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lora Kolodny: Though the first one hasn\u2019t even come off the production line yet, the makers of a new \u201ctelepresence\u201d robot called the \u201cDouble\u201d attracted more than $1 million worth of preorders within three weeks. \u201cIt\u2019s a Segway for your iPad,\u201d quipped David Cann, founder and chief executive of Miami-based Double Robotics, at Y Combinator\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}