Add “giant humanoid robot operator” to the list of jobs I’d like to have for at least a day. Over in Japan, a cool-ass bot is being controlled by a human using virtual reality goggles, and it’s pretty amazing to see.

[Photo credit: JR West]

The full video of this thing in action is pretty amazing.¹

Footnotes:

1. An archive of the video can be found here. ↩︎