As anyone taken a look at this?
http://www.terk.ri.cmu.edu/
It's a telepresence robot, you run it over WiFi off your laptop. So far, cool, but so what...
It's sponsored by Google.
It's sponsored by Microsoft.
It's sponsored by Intel.
It's run by Carnegie Mellon Univeristy (CMU)
I don't know. I'm a mechanical guy - but it seems cool to me.