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This seems like a decent force multiplier, though I have to wonder how efficient the results are compared to just having a small crew of workers with a boom lift and a good toolbox. There are also the attention-splitting issues you can't cover with just one person in a cab, like marking off areas and directing traffic/pedestrians.
It seems that in many cases, Japanese robot designers prefer humanoid form over a more practical design. Watching the video linked by ano-ther, it seems that many of the demonstrated tasks could benefit from cameras that are placed more closely to the tool. Accurately placing parts, inspections, and the tree limb removal tasks are examples of this.
Robot? It’s more like a remote-control exoskeleton.
So like a robot?
This is the most Japan thing I have seen here in a long time. Immediate throwback to all the cool mecha anime stuff...
I was about to say, isn’t this how the plot of Patlabor starts?
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FPV drone hardware has commercialized very cheap very low latency video feeds to headsets. Not with headtracking though. Not sure that's reasonably possible.
FPV headsets can have head tracking. I don’t know cost now, but it was possible even in 2012/2013/2014 when I worked in that industry.
Here is a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owSJK7vMSLk Interestingly, humans come very close to it during operation.