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This Robot Will Do Your Business Traveling for You Fed up with traveling for business? Anybot's 'personal avatar' can help.

By Michelle Juergen • Jun 21, 2011

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QB watches over his creator, Trevor Blackwell.

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Trevor Blackwell, founding partner in seed-stage venture funding firm Y Combinator; former principal at Viaweb, the first point-and-click internet storefront system that later became Yahoo! Store; Harvard grad and recreational hacker. His latest project: QB, a "personal avatar" (read: robot you send into the office as your proxy), developed by Anybots, his Mountain View, Calif., robotics company.

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