Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

theguardian.com

Summary

West Japan Railway’s new humanoid employee was designed with nothing more than a spot of painting and gardening in mind. Its operator sits in a cockpit on the truck, “seeing” through the robot’S eyes via cameras and operating its powerful limbs and hands remotely.

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13 Comments

throwschen

Closer and closer to Gundam... I can't wait

josephOP

I'll be happy as long as I have the ability to pilot one

eldiscipulo

One step closer to exo suits!

josephOP

It's probably easier to make remote controlled rather than trying to fit a human body inside

x0x7

I'd like to see a more realistic anime where mechs fight each other but their operators are in vans parked close by.

josephOP

That would be hilarious to have them spend a month with of episodes just in a long battle to ultimately just put their controller down in the van.

eldiscipulo

Always comes down to cheating put and being about money!

joesch

I'll bet operating this thing would be a lot of fun!

josephOP

I'm hoping we'll get first person videos of it soon! This would be an awesome application for Google glass!

x0x7

Or more like meta quest or apple vision. Google glass is just a glorified notification system akin to an apple watch for your face.

josephOP

Definitely those two if using these robots is more of a virtual scenario where you get the perspective of the bot but I was imagining it's more of one of these industrial applications for the more recent versions of glass

joesch

Completely forgot about Google Glass. This does seem like it would be a pretty cool use for it, even Hololens could benefit it.

x0x7

Of course Japan is the first to get mechs.

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Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

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