Self-balancing Anybots QB now shipping, the future of telepresence is now (video)

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First they came for our telepresence, and we did not speak because we
couldn't afford them. Then they came for our physical presence, and
there was no one left to speak out for us. Yes, Anybots are coming,
the self-balancing QB robot available for purchase and shipping now,
but at $15,000 we're thinking not too many of you will be jumping on
this bandwagon to start. As we saw in our hands-on in December the
self-balancing bots enable you to be somewhere that you aren't,
controlled through a simple web interface and enabling executives to
remotely monitor and run over the toes of their peons toiling in the
office while said execs sit comfortably at home. There's some footage
of one of the bots in action below, which you'd better watch before
one of them captures footage of you maintaining a state of inaction.