GE and Verizon Advertise using robots

By Frank Tobe | February 4, 2013

Verizon TV advertisements feature VGo Communications mobile telepresence robots streaming large amounts of data through their 4G LTE network. One ad shows a young home-bound student remotely attending and participating in a class; the other shows how kids, far away from the ocean, participated in a field trip to an ocean aquarium.

GE’s TV ads feature a variety of brilliant machines (robots and smart jet engines) for transforming the way we work.

Both ads are positive, favorable, and stimulate the public’s imagination about the value of robots in everyday life.

Click to see videos of the ads.

About The Author

Frank Tobe

Frank Tobe is the founder of The Robot Report and co-founder of ROBO Global which has developed a tracking index for the robotics industry, the ROBO Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. The index of ~90 companies in 13 sub-sectors tracks and captures the entire economic value of this global opportunity in robotics, automation and enabling technologies.