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Credit: Dzmitry Tsetserukou

What if you could be in two places at once? Or four? A group of Japanese roboticists envisions a world where we all use robots to visit friends and family, and represent us in distant work sites. They are developing a telepresence robot they think will give humans more physical immersion in remote locations.

“Vision is not enough,” said Dzmitry Tsetserukou, an assistant professor at Toyohashi University of Technology’s Advanced Interdisciplinary Electric Research Center. “We have to provide tactile feedback to make him or her more involved, and also motion feedback so we can feel more like we are human on the robot side.”

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All part of de-humanising us, I s'pose