The Everything-Robotic blog, by The Robot Report , provides stories that matter about topical and interesting aspects of the robotics industry. It supplements articles appearing on The Robot Report website. InTouch Health has installed their remote presence robots and portable devices in hospitals all over the world, and their devices are used more frequently year by year. In his keynote speech, Wang said they were in "500 hospitals and have 60,000 high acuity consults a year now, and growing at a nice clip." This is up from 300 hospitals and 20,000 consults two years ago. After the address I spent a few moments with Colin and asked him about iRobot's role with InTouch and about their goals for their new mobility platform. I saw and played with the new RP-VITA robots and they are truly slick. But the most enlightening thing I saw was four hours of tightly-packed presentations by critical care doctors and hospital administrators, all users of InTouch Health's remote presence robots, and all portraying different aspects of why remote presence in health care is relevant, is saving lives and is necessary today and why it will continue to be in the future. A Trauma Telemedicine outfit from Halifax, Canada is providing pre-natal care in a Third World South American nation. They are using InTouch Health's portable remote presence devices with a traveling nurse to assist in taking and discussing ultra sound exams and other pre-natal treatments with health care professionals in Canada for rural pregnant women. Two