Maker Faire Bay Area 2007

Sparky 2, The Autonomous Telepresence Robot

Type: Maker Workbench

Topic(s): Arts | Engineering

Tags: robot telepresence autonomous video chat ichat

Put your face on the robot! This self-powered, mobile, interactive videochat robot can be operated remotely over the internet. It improves the design presented at last year's Faire.

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About the Maker(s)

Marque Cornblatt

Marque Cornblatt

Marque Cornblatt is a futurist, designer, trained emergency first-responder and DIY expert. He’s a graduate of NYU’s film and video program and holds a Master’s in conceptual technology from SFSU. His films, robots and artwork have been exhibited at SFMoMA, Burning Man, and featured on Modern Marvels, Monster Nation as well as the pages of Make magazine. "Guns & Gardens", Marque’s DIY zombie apocalypse survival series is the most viewed zombie series on Youtube. With a combined viewership of more than 1.8 million.

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