Meet Fable Connect – The world’s first telepresence robot for your children to stay connected with friends, school, and family
Copenhagen, August 20th, 2020
Danish robotics company Shape Robotics is now extending its successful modular robotic platform, Fable, with a groundbreaking new product which adds remarkable dimensions to ordinary video chatting: Fable Connect - the world’s first telepresence robot – with lots of useful applications for families with children, the health sector and educational institutions.
Fable Connect is an inventive smartphone-controlled telerobot that add amazing new dimensions to traditional video meetings, enabling families with kids and other users to keep closely connected regardless of the distance.
“Fable Connect is the missing link in a wide range of situations where people, for one reason or another, are prevented from being physically present. You can say that our new innovative telepresence robot is removing distancing in social distancing”, CEO & Founder, David Johan Christensen, says.
A new and ingenious way to bring people closer together
The concept, which has been developed in close collaboration with the child cancer unit at the highly specialized Danish hospital, Rigshospitalet, is as simple as it is ingenious:
Download the app, plug your phone into your robot, activate the video chat, and send an invite to the person you want to come visit. Your invited guest is now able to control the telerobot with the phone through an optional device (smartphone, tablet, PC, or Mac).
The robot is very useful in a lot of situations where people are prevented or prohibited from being present in the same room. It enables people to still communicate in a deeper and more personal way than what is possible using ordinary video chatting.
“For example, there may be many good reasons for children to be housebound - longtime illness, pandemics, anxiety, or simply a broken bone. These are all situations where children might prefer to be with their friends and teachers. Fable Connect can help them attend school from home because the new telerobot provides the feeling of real presence in the classroom, as it allows them to see, hear, look/move around, and speak”, David Johan Christensen explains.
He also highlights the possibility of more frequent "visits" by relatives and friends who live far away, and parents “checking in at home” to say hello or goodnight when they are abroad.
Another obvious area of use of this innovative robot concept is hospitalized patients who are not allowed to get visitors due to the risk of infection. They can now visit family and friends thanks to the world’s first telepresence robot, Fable Connect, which can be pre-ordered until October 1 at a special promotional intro price.
The very first Danish customers (Institutions located in The Municipality of Køge) will receive their Fable Connect smartphone-controlled telerobots today (August 20). Then, deliveries begin to a number of eager customers and business partners in the rest of the world, a broad and varied customer portfolio, including educational institutions and hospitals – but also playful and innovative families planning to invite grandma, who lives thousands of miles away, on a surprise telerobot visit for the next birthday. Just for the fun of it.
Contact Shape Robotics
More information, interview request;
David Johan Christensen, CEO Shape Robotics A/S.
Tel. +45 26 85 09 03 / email: david@shaperobotics.com
Learn More and Book a Demo
Learn more about Fable Connect at shaperobotics.com/connect
For booking requests of an instructive, inspirational, and fun Fable Connect demo, please contact sales@shaperobotics.com
About Shape Robotics and the Fable Platform
The company is located north of Danish capital Copenhagen and has in a few years built a strong and notable position in the global EdTech market because of its visionary modular constructive platform, Fable, that makes it easy and instructive for any kid or grown-up to construct and program customized robots for educational, professional or personal use.
Since the launch of Fable in 2017 more than 5000 robots have been sold and shipped to classrooms around the world, providing excellent teaching that prepare students (from the 3rd grade to high-school and vocational schools) for a fast-changing future where digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and automation are transforming life and work.
