This startup that just raised $6.5 million bets the next big side hustle is controlling robots with VR headsets

Colin Webb, founder and CEO of Avatar Robotics (middle). Avatar Robotics Avatar Robotics raised $6.5 million to build a workforce of industrial robots. Remote contractors control the robots as they perform paid warehouse work. Each shift generates data that Avatar uses to make its robots more autonomous. On a cold morning in Dallas shortly before Christmas last year, CEO Colin Webb watched one of his robots work an eight-hour shift alongside warehouse workers. The wheeled machine, equipped…