Presented at SIGGRAPH 2018 Emerging Technologies, this full body surrogacy is used for collaborative communication. 

At Keio University in Japan, roboticists have developed this telepresence robot that is designed to allow a person to remotely inhabit the body of someone else in order to help them with manipulation tasks, according to IEEE Spectrum. This wearable “lives” on a person’s back, which allows you to peak over their shoulder and give them a second set of hands to help them with tasks. 

Fusion enables body surrogacy by sharing the same point of view of two people: a surrogate and an operator. The wearable technology extends a person’s limb mobility and the operator’s actions using two robotic arms. Through this system, the researchers were able to demonstrate the possibilities of embodying and transferring our own actions from one person to another.