It can actually be said of Kouhei Ohnishi, a system design
engineering professor at Keio University, that “the force is with him” – having
made public his invention, a system that would allow physical force to be
transmitted wirelessly between two devices. Such a system could be a boon to
workers in unsafe environments – where a worker could do physical work without
having to be physically onsite – or physical therapists to still treat patients
without being physically with them.