A report on telepresence, a technology that allows a user to remotely control a robot. It is primarily being used in dangerous situations where its not safe or practical to send a human.

The U.S. Defense Department announced that for the first time they are flying armed, unmanned aircraft into combat and controlling them with operators in the United States thousands of miles from the battlefield in Afghanistan.

Jaron Lanier, the popular advocate for virtual reality, explains the new technology of "tele-immersion", a new medium which "approximates the illusion that a user is in the same physical space as other people, even though the other participants might in fact be hundreds or thousands of miles away."