Controlling an excavator from thousands of miles away - GIF

[nova_robotics]

This is the future. Particularly for things like cranes where 98% of the day you have some guy just sitting there not touching the controls, burning up huge money. It is required that the crane should be attended, but there's no reason someone can't do that remotely for a fraction of the cost of onsite labour.

Also I have a bunch of service robots and they have remote operation capability. I've had people welding from thousands of miles away.