So, it's a Segway with FaceTime? The main question is why? Even the video can't seem to find a decent use case. The art gallery idea is ridiculous, why would you physically control a robot that wanders an art gallery when the gallery has a website? Also have you ever tried actually wandering around a gallery? The robot wouldn't stand a chance. What happens when someone knocks it over?

In the workplace this would just be embarrassing. Not to mention a security threat, there's no way any serious corporation would allow roaming cameras in their offices.

If I put my idealist hat on and try to imagine the future with these, I keep coming back to those Segway videos of the hype of a new kind of city, a new kind of transportation.

This really is a technology in search of a use case, that isn't already being addressed. I read comments that say they would use these to attend meetings, how does this robot compare to Cisco's video conferencing, or FaceTime or even just calling in from the car/home. At work we use screen sharing and audio/visual conferencing which seems to work just fine, and where it doesn't it will evolve.

I'm wondering how this robot would push the elevator button to get to a meeting on another floor? There are just so many problems with this idea, not the least of which is who would actually buy one.