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Wearing a helmet outfitted with a video camera, battery pack, and wireless link to the Internet to project still images
to distant viewers, Tele-actor Annamarie Ho guides virtual visitors to off-limits locales, from a biotechnology lab bench to a Japanese steel mill. Viewers see what the Tele-actor sees, hear what it hears, and direct it toward what interests them most in a dynamic, interactive exploration. Professor Ken Goldberg, who has been called a pioneer in the technology of letting us be where we are not, directs Berkeley’s ALPHA lab, a research center for Internet telerobotics. The tele-actor’s helmet was esigned by EECS Ph.D. Eric Paulos with associates Chris Meyers and Matthew Fogarty.

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Cover photos by Bart Nagel

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