Cyborg or avatar: will you wear a robot, or operate it?

Some robots won't replace us. Some will augment us: make us faster, stronger, bigger, more capable. Sarcos Robotics has built both robots that you can wear and robots you can operate, and just recently unveiled the Guardian XT to complement the Guardian XO.

One you wear, and it helps you lift 200 pounds with minimal effort. The other you teleoperate in VRwhile wearing motion-capturing clothing. Weld, cut, lift, bolt ... you can do it all in dangerous situations from the safety of the ground, or your home.

In this episode of TechFirst with John Koetsier, we chat with Ben Wolff from Sarcos about the Guardians, how they work, and what they mean about the future of work.

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Sarcos https://www.sarcos.com

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Contents:

0:00 Fleet of thousands

1:06 Robot avatars

2:11 Wearable robots

4:43 Merging human and machine

5:08 Where these robots work

8:41 Fine motor control

10:03 Power supply

10:58 Range of motion

13:30 Robots & work in 5 years