Inside bizarre ‘metaverse vacation’ where a ROBOT explores holiday spot – while you wear goggles and exoskeleton at home

Forget jumping on a plane and packing your suncream - robots could one day go on holiday for us while we stay at home.

Of course, many of us want to properly lounge on a beach and see the sights, but scientists in Italy have shown how it could be done with a man more than 185 miles away from his avatar.

Instead of battling through tourists in Venice, the robot did the hard work for him while he remained on the other side of the country in Genoa.