telepresence

/ ˈtɛlɪˌprɛzəns /

noun

1. the use of virtual reality technology to operate machinery by remote control or to create the effect of being at a different or imaginary location

Example Sentences

Researchers from Cornell and Brown University have developed a souped-up telepresence robot that responds automatically and in real-time to a remote user's movements and gestures made in virtual reality.

From Science Daily

For teammates, the VRoxy robot automatically mimics the user's body position and other vital nonverbal cues that are otherwise lost with telepresence robots and on Zoom.

From Science Daily

According to reporting in Forbes, employees returning to Twitter HQ last week discovered “modest bedrooms featuring unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant conference-room telepresence monitors… one room even has a plant.”

From Slate

Wong was also the first person to visit the White House in cyborg form, attending the Americans with Disabilities Act 25th anniversary reception as a “telepresence robot” — like an iPad mounted on top of a Segway, with the spatial awareness of a Roomba — in 2015.

From Los Angeles Times

It was sort of useful as a type of telepresence robot to keep tabs on my kids, who get home from school several hours before I finish work in my home office.

From The Verge