Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

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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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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.

Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

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