A Japanese airline wants to send you to space. Well, not you exactly, but a robot avatar that you can control in real time, while seeing through its eyes and feeling what it feels through haptic feedback .

All Nippon Airlines (ANA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have just announced the Avatar X programme , an initiative to build these advanced humanoid drones and send them to space.

“The giant leap will be in bringing human consciousness and presence to a remote location,” says Kevin Kajitani, …