Light on the Net
Masaki Fujihata  set this panel of lights up at the Softopia building in Gifu, Japan.   Users can turn the lights on and off. The lights are controlled by clicking directly on any bulb. 
 

The Switzerland Coke Machine
At this site you can get the vital statistics of a coke machine in Switzerland.

Netscape Engineering Sign
This is a bus sign in Netscape's engineering pit. Users dictate what the sign says, but a view of the sign is dependent upon whether the camera is aimed correctly.

The Interactive Electric Chair
Deathrow Online, the world's first interactive electric chair, allows volunteers to execute delinquents-- for example, I had the opportunity to execute John A.Peterson whose crime was to drop a baby while playing with it.  Deathrow Online is trying to expand its capabilities, and soon users might be able to flood Bangledesh or drop a Russian nuclear missile over New York with a click of the mouse.

Alice
This is not a telerobot in the sense of the others but is a very cool natural language interface. Richard Wallace's Alice is a literary chatterbot .  When she asked me what my favorite book was I said A Trip to the Moon (I had a suspicion she would know what it was) .  Alice claimed that she loved Jules Verne's  A Trip to the Moon (are we surprised?).  She also said she liked Thomas Pynchon.  But, when I asked her what her favorite Pynchon novel was, she got lost.    Many links to other AI sites.

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