  Companies all over the world started to produce and sell telepresence robots
in the last decade. Users of these robots have to plan their way to avoid
collisions and control the speed of the robot to move it to destination point.
This interface is familiar to many people who play computer games but it causes
difficulties for the older generation and disabled people. We present here a
novel interface to control telepresence robots where the operator only
specifies the destination point on the video frame and the robot moves there
automatically and avoids collisions. Users of the robots learn how to perform
tasks 7-28% faster and make 17-49% fewer mistakes. The approach can be easily
applied for any commercial telepresence robot and for development of
telepresence robots for disabled people.
