(Please bear in mind that I cannot vouch how long these links will stay working.)
This story about a Japanese guard/fire-fighting and water-leak detecting guard robot caught my attention, as did This story about a gunbot that's driven by a soldier remotely.
Rigging, the tortoise way. It's a step, methinks. And if we combine it with some of that other technology we've seen on the boards, like that imaging technology... Well, once you know how to get a visual signal from a brain, how much harder is it to figure out how to give one?