DATE – 2007
DISCIPLINE – Art
MEDIUM – Interactive robotic sculpture
STATUS – Displayed at the Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, Canada
WEBLINKS
http://gaggio.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/04/11/mobi.html
MOBI (Mobile Operating Bi-directional Interface), by Graham Smith, is a human sized telepresence robot that users remotely control to move through distant environments, see through its camera eye, talk through its speakers and hear via its microphone ear. Simultaneously a life sized image of themselves is projected onto the robots LCD face, creating a robotic avatar. MOBI allows people to “explore far away art shows, attend distant presentations and make public appearances from anywhere on earth, thus helping to reduce air travel and reduce global warming”. MOBI is at DEAF 07
