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A Double Robotics telepresence robot around 2013.

Double Robotics is a technology startup company that produces iPad-based telepresence robots called Double and Double2. [1] [2] [3] Double, which resembles a Segway PT, [4] has a price of $2,499.

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The robot uses gyroscope and accelerometer sensors in its base, and can be controlled with a desktop, tablet, or smartphone. [5]

Double Robotics received seed funding from Y Combinator. Johnson & Johnson and The Coca-Cola Company are testing Double and seven Fortune 500 companies have preordered. Preorders total over $500,000. [1] Customer deliveries began February 2013. [6]

As of January 2017, the company claims about 8000 robots being sold since 2013. [7]

In August 2019, the company debuted the Double 3, a robot intended to increase productivity of remote workers and distance learners. [8]

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  8. "Double 3 telepresence robot debuts from Double Robotics". The Robot Report. 2019-08-27. Retrieved 2020-02-21.