Fable Connect

DESCRIPTION

Fable Connect is a Consumer-Robot from Shape Robotics. It is built for Companionship, Remote, Education. Key figures: released 2020.

Fable Connect is Shape Robotics' smartphone-controlled telepresence robot, an extension of its Fable modular robot platform that adds movement to ordinary video chats. The user downloads the app, plugs a phone into the robot, starts a video chat and invites a guest, who can then drive the robot from their own smartphone, tablet, PC or Mac. The remote guest can see, hear, look and move around and speak, giving a stronger sense of being in the room than a normal video call. Shape Robotics developed the concept with the child cancer unit at Denmark's Rigshospitalet, aiming it at children who are housebound through long illness, anxiety, pandemics or injury so they can join their classroom from home, at hospital patients who cannot have visitors, and at families who want relatives far away to drop in. The first robots were delivered to institutions in the Municipality of Koge on 20 August 2020, with deliveries to schools, hospitals and families elsewhere following.

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