"By remotely stimulating a person's vestibular system - the fluid-filled tubes in the inner ear that guide their sense of balance - with electrodes placed on the skin just below the ear, researchers at NTT's research laboratories in Kanagawa have found a way to turn humans into oversized radio controlled vehicles." // read more.

...Just wait that the pentagon find out about this¹.
Seriously, what, can't they just engineer about more useful stuff?
She-robots already. Now someone please explains to me what's the use of having a remote-controlled human, if not to have the perfect terrorist or the perfect soldier tomorrow.
Boy, are humans scary.

_{1. Unless, they already have it and that was the bulge about.}

it's no fresh news that japanese engineers are developing human robots. More precisely, she-robots.
What a coincidence... women robots. Isn't that a clear message? "That's how we like them"... Who can be more incompetent in understanding women than this sorry geek all black-dressed here in the photo?
Not only they pestered their women for centuries with the geisha thing¹; not only they are still one of the most chauvinist country in the world: it's getting near the day that a japanese husband will say to his wife: "you always complain for something! can't you see our neighbour's wife? She's always quiet an obedient! Why can't you be just like her?"
"But that's a robot!"
"So! What's the difference!"
Push em out of bed. Before it's too late.

_{1. I know, the geisha thing is very poetic. Indeed. Very traditional. That's why I prefer renovation to tradition, which, BTW, as someone said, is the "illusion of permanence". Permanence of oppressive habits mostly.}