Teleoperation

In teleoperation, a person wears a controller or virtual reality gear and moves, and the robot copies the motion exactly. Robots that work in places too dangerous for people to enter, and surgical robots that doctors handle through a control device, move this way.

These days it is used more for teaching robots. If a person controls a robot to fold laundry and the motions are recorded many times, those records become the textbook that the robot's AI learns from. Also, a video of a robot that seems to move on its own is sometimes really being controlled by a person behind the scenes.

It is like holding a child's hand and writing letters together. At first the adult does the moving, but with the experience built up, the child comes to write alone.

When you watch a robot demo, you have to ask "did it do this by itself, or was a person controlling it?" to judge what it can really do. A robotaxi getting help from a faraway person when it hits a tricky situation uses a similar technology.