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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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

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Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

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