Nanalyze October 27, 2020
We recently introduced our lovely readers to the concept of telexistence – the merger of virtual reality and robotics – in which a human plugs into the Matrix to operate a remote humanoid-like machine. At the moment, it’s more of a parlor trick, but practical applications are literally out of this world, with one use case that proposes controlling a robot on the International Space Station from Earth. But an even more impressive achievement will be the day when robots can manipulate objects with dexterity and autonomy in order to free up humans for value-added tasks like pizza delivery (at least until drones take over that job). There are already some very sophisticated industrial robots in manufacturing and warehousing made...