Suitable Technologies: Beam, the remote-controlled telepresence robot, gets acquired by Denmark's Blue Ocean Robotics

Beam, a telepresence robot with a screen that a person can remotely control and use to communicate via video, became a breakthrough success in the world of robotics in part because of its role in helping high-profile, but movement-limited, people like Edward Snowden better communicate with the outside world, and disability rights activists meet with world [...]