Self-driving legs to walk me to the office

When we end up voluntary ceding control of our own body parts to AI (for example so we can automatically walk around the grocery story while simultaneously catching up on boxsets on a VR headset) I wonder what that will feel like. The underlying tech is currently in research phase. What I mean is that humanoid robots are coming (as previously discussed). And while robots are a mechanical challenge and a software challenge, some people are asking: what if you took that software part and pointed it at something else? Like, not a robot shaped like the human body but the human body itself. For example: you can directly drive the muscles using Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS). Here’s a new wearable called Human Operator which won MIT Hard Mode 2026. Human Operator is a human augmentation tool that allows AI to briefly take control of your body to help you learn and do things you normally cannot do. To do this, it uses a Vision-Language Model for human motor control through Electrical…