This Beam store is the only one of its kind. Visitors who walk in will be greeted with a whirring sound, as the machines roll up and their hosts say hello. Behind each screen is a Beam employee, ready ...

Beam, a telepresence robot with a screen that a person can remotely control and use to communicate via video, became a breakthrough success in the world of robotics in part because of its role in ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Engineer Dallas Goecker attends meetings, jokes with colleagues and roams the office building just like other employees at his company in Silicon Valley. But Goecker isn’t in ...

Except that Kim never left her office in southern California, on the other side of the country. Nor did her other colleagues at Suitable Technologies who virtually attended SXSW via Beam, a ...