Screen Grabs: Willow Garage’s telepresence bot guest stars on The Big Bang Theory
Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dot com . CBS’s The Big Bang Theory is the super popular sitcom about brilliant nerds. If you’ve been watching, you’ve undoubtedly seen Steve Wozniak’s recent guest spot — but there have been other notable presences, too. Willow Garage ‘s Texai telepresence robot recently made an appearance as “Shel-bot” — a stand in for the character Sheldon. While we didn’t get to see the hilarious high jinks ourselves, we can tell from the screen shots that it was a pretty good time. Hit up the coverage link to learn more about Willow Garage’s Texai. Screen Grabs: Willow Garage’s telepresence bot guest stars on The Big Bang Theory originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Oct 2010 02:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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