Eduardo Kac pioneered telepresence art in 1986, when he created his first wireless robot, a remote-controlled anthropomorphic figure through which human participants could engage in conversation. In 1989 Kac developed with Ed Bennett the telerobot Ornitorrinco, and with it a series of telepresence works -- including the first wireless telerobotic artwork on the Internet, in 1994. http://www.ekac.org/ornitorrincoM.html