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• Version 13.0 "Robot, Clone, Human", Biotechnology lab at LBL, Nov. 7th, 2002
• Version 12.0, Berkeley MicroLab, Oct 23rd, 2002
• Version 11.0 "Hearst Memorial Mining Building Grand Opening", UC Berkeley, Sept 22nd, 2002
• Version 10.0 "Robot, Clone, Human", Biotechnology lab at LBL, July 25th, 2002
• Version 9.0 "Thin Blue Wire Scenario", UC Berkeley Breezeway, July 11th, 2002
• Version 8.0, Pasadena Art Center Studio Course, Summer 2002
• Version 7.0, Robots in Biotech, Fall 2002

• Version 6.0, San Francisco Exploratorium, Feb 13th, 2002

• Version 5.0, Berkeley MicroLab, December 2001

• Version 4.0, Berkeley MicroLab, November 2001

• Version 3.0, Teleactor at Webby Awards, July 18th, 2001

Collaborations:

• Pasadena Art Center Studio Design Course, Summer 2002

Publications:

• Collaborative Online Teleoperation with Spatial Dynamic Voting and a Human ``Tele-Actor'' K. Goldberg, D. Song, Y. Khor, D. Pescovitz, A. Levandowski, J. Himmelstein, J. Shih, A. Ho, E. Paulos, J. Donath, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2002. [590K .pdf]

Media Coverage:

• Tele-Twister project proves that fun and games can also be educational.(Berkeley Engineering news), Oct. 2003
  

• Robotic Tele-actor: A virtual tour guide with soul, Forefront Magazine (UC Berkeley Alumni Magazine), Fall 2002

• Who's In Control? Rhizome Online, Feb 12, 2003

• ‘Tele-actor’ tours - the next best thing to being there?, Berkeleyan, Apr.24, 2002

• TechTV report, TechTV, Spring 2002

• Your wish is my command , New Scientist, Dec. 22, 2001  

• Let's Take a Walk to a New Frontier , LA Times, Dec. 13, 2001  

• Robots: It's an Art Thing , Wired News, Nov. 12, 2001 

• Being There , Business 2.0, Oct, 2001 

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