This photo taken on October 3, 2016 shows developer Katsumori Sakakibara (L) wearing a head-mounted display to demonstrate a prototype remote-controlled robot called “Caiba” (R), during a press preview of the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (CEATEC) Japan in Chiba, in suburban Tokyo.
Waist-high Caiba — whose name means hippocampus, a key area of the brain, in Japanese — is controlled by a human wearing a virtual reality handset and mechanical arms. / AFP PHOTO / TORU YAMANAKA