A life-sized tachikoma robot has been built by Japanese engineers. Called the "personal edition" it can seat one person, who controls it with a joystick.
The device is limited to a rather small 60 kg individual; the vehicle has a camera on the outside with projects the view on the spherical cockpit inside.
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