T-Mobile is demonstrating just how useful its 5G network can be for remote robotic operations, this week applying a tattoo on someone’s arm in the Netherlands. The “impossible tattoo” was needled into the skin by a robot arm being controlled by a tattoo artist in another location over T-Mobile’s Dutch 5G network. Due to the low latency of 5G — how quickly the network responds to the command someone gives it — the tattoo was drawn in real time. Dutch tattoo artist Wes applied the tattoo on Dutch actress Stijn Fransen for the experiment. T-Mobile said Tuesday that the final tattoo “was given after countless tests on an army of heroic vegetables and prosthetic skin samples.”
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