Kavita Krishnaswamy hasn't left her house in six years, but that hasn't stopped her from wandering around the Seattle Art Museum and taking in concerts at the National Music Museum in South Dakota.
A PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Krishnaswamy has spinal muscular atrophy and requires assistance 24 hours a day. She was able to make the museum trips using a Beam telepresence robot -- a remotely controlled 16-inch screen mounted five feet above motorized wheels.
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