This really is cool. Imagine if the robot could save the movements it made so that it could perform them again and again. Imagine all of the fun stuff you could do!

Uh... that'd be pretty standard coolproducts. I mean, you can do that with a ton of toy robots already (move the limbs manually and it records and can reproduce the movements).

As to the tech itself, neat, but not horribly impressive. I mean, aren't there already controllers like this? It's sure easy to think of better ways to do it. The way the tubes hung limply, it wouldn't even mimic arm movement well. It should be attatched directly to the arm, to track your movement precisely (which could be a problem when your limp arm drags over a stranded earthquake victim).

And not to be a fanboi, but I have seen some gundam. In almost all of them they were using control boards, not any type of movement tracking (which is ridiculous considering what their bots could do, but there's rarely an anime good enough to actually stick itself in a realistic world). For full robo surrogate arse kicking we need a neural network anyway, full movement tracking and feedback giving you a sense of where your "body" is. Vision piped right into the gray matter wouldn't hurt either. And you might as well put all of that inside the suit rather than out; for all that people love the idea of remote controlled soldiers, they are remarkably vulnerable. It's not hard at all to scramble radio, after all, or to hack computers. You don't want your enemy disabling your couple billion dollar fortress wrecking giant robot with a couple hundred dollars worth of electronics :D