A friend and I were contemplating a robot tele-operation business. It wouldn&#x27;t be right to call it a startup. It would me more like a cross between a catering&#x2F;entertainment service and performance art.<p>The idea is this: get together some good tele-operators, some good haptic tele-operation hardware, and hire out the group as &quot;Robot Caterers&quot; or as &quot;Robot Entertainers.&quot; I could picture some Hollywood tycoon hiring the group, just so he can appear to be <i>so rich, he can hire robots from the future.</i> (He&#x27;d have to have some dim friends for this to work.)