LUCIFER actor Tom Ellis has been shaved by a robotic arm on Snowdon, controlled by a barber 250 miles away, in a new test of EE’s 5G network.
The demonstration sees a London-based barber use motion capture to remotely shave the actor – who is on Snowdon – with the barber’s movements tracked and sent over EE’s public 5G network to be mimicked by the robot shaver.
The test will be the subject of a new advertising campaign by the mobile network.
5G technology, which began rolling out in the UK in 2019, is capable of handling more data at once compared to previous generations of mobile communications, and as a result, is seen by experts as a pathway to the wider introduction of data-intensive innovations such as autonomous vehicles and remote surgery.