Oddly Obsessive Over Obscurities

amazing things happening in late series columbo episodes

Fucking way, it's real.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

"Intended to support development and demonstration of remote-presence technology, the Remote Presence Demonstration System (nicknamed “Green Man”) was a hydraulically actuated anthropomorphic master–slave configuration that remotely mimicked the upper torso of a human operator. The early prototype ... was assembled in 1983 using a pair of MB Associates arms and a NOSC-developed torso and head. The 1985 version ... provided additional degrees of freedom at the hip, torso, shoulder, and arms, and featured an exoskeletal master controller with kinematic equivalency and spatial correspondence of the torso, arms, and head. “Green Man’s” stereo-vision system, two 525-line, 35-degree field-of-view video cameras and a corresponding pair of video-camera eyepiece monitors mounted on an aviator's helmet, provided valuable experience in telepresence design. Even with the simplistic claw hands and no force or tactile feedback, novice operators could readily perform manipulative tasks without extensive training." – H.R. Everett, Pictorial History of the Code 717 Unmanned Systems Group: Air, Land, and Sea.