This unusual wearable telecommunicator T1 robot is a robotic project from the Tsumaki Telerobotics Laboratory of Yamagata University. Get a friend to wear the device, and you can use an Internet link to go along.
The operator wears goggles and can see and hear what is going on remotely. Arm gestures can also be communicated.
(Wearable Telepresence Robot video)
I'm sure readers can think of a wearable robot (not just an exoskeleton like the HAL or XOS), but my memory went straight to the bizarre 1972 movie The Thing With Two Heads; take a look at the trailer below.
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'What strange sensitivity! What an amazing development of science was manifested in every move and act and word of this Robot!' - Ray Cummings, 1931.
DIY Robot Scorpion Crushes It
'...it raised its front end off the ground and waved its antennae at them, then raised one armoured claw as if to snip them out of the sky.' - Neal Asher, 2008.
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'What strange sensitivity! What an amazing development of science was manifested in every move and act and word of this Robot!'
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'That explains how it was so easy for me to remain motionless in midair or to perch on a flagpole in imitation of a giant bird, even in the windy city of Chicago.'
DIY Robot Scorpion Crushes It
'...it raised its front end off the ground and waved its antennae at them, then raised one armoured claw as if to snip them out of the sky.'