Telepresence for the Home with Assistant

We examined a number of telepresence solutions for office environments,  trying to allow people to casually inhabit new environments,  office or business, or industrial, without going there.   With the user given the option of what they saw, who they spoke to,  how they gathered information.   It never worked well.  The recent 'Facebook Portal' ads where the device could follow the face of a remote person also made me think of other social aspects.  Now a device that aims to insert an assistant.    Not sure that the current skills in 'assists' would be very useful, but could think of others that would be.

Robotemi is adding Alexa to its personal telepresence robot
It'll basically be a rolling Echo Show.

By Nick Summers, @nisummers  in Engadget.
Telepresence for the home

Temi (pronounced "Timmy," I think) is a personal robot with a 10-inch tablet for a head. It can play music and videos, control your smart home hardware and handle other basic assistant stuff, such as ordering takeout. In short, Temi is a friendlier telepresence robot for the home. Today, the company is announcing plans to integrate Amazon's Alexa assistant and, by extension, offer "Echo Show-like experiences" through its LCD screen. Now, Temi already offers video calls to mobile devices and other Temi robots. Echo-enabled calls, however, would increase the number of devices -- and by extension, it's usefulness -- that Temi owners can call. .... "