A Brave Bomb-Disposal Robot You Control in Virtual Reality

But there are plenty of dull, dirty, and dangerous gigs out there that humanity wouldn't mind turning over to the machines. Indeed, a robot called Taurus from SRI International has already begun its takeover of one of the most dangerous jobs on Earth: bomb disposal. Sure, bomb disposal robots have been rolling the earth for some time. But now SRI has taken its already brilliant bot and made it ... brillianter, by outfitting Taurus with virtual reality. Before, Taurus' operators watched a 3-D monitor to see the world through the robot's eyes, then manipulated controls that translated their movements into the movement of the robot's hands and graspers.