"presence" over IP

There are many tasks in manufacturing/business that require the dexterity and intelligence of a human operator. In some affluent areas, these jobs are hard to fill even though the wages on offer are good. (Rich people don't do "manual" work.) I say open the market for these jobs by using high-speed internet connections. The world of telecommunication is being revolutionized by "Voice Over Internet Protocol" (VOIP). I propose "Presence Over IP". It's being done by surgeons, but I think it could have a larger role as a tool for economically poor people to gain access to paying jobs.

Example: High-tech assembly. A workstation has robotic hands and is connected to the 'net. A simple program allows an authorized user anywhere in the world to operate the hands via mouse/joystick. It's like a video game, but you get paid for every properly assembled unit. The economic value paid by the company receiving the value add of assembly is universal, whether it was performed by someone across the hall or on the far side of the earth. The process is incremental, so neither side is risking a great deal. In this way persons in disparate corners of the planet (perhaps where famine or war have destroyed the economies), could have access to an earning job. I know you need the box and the connection, but those would seem a lot easier to provide than full-on industrial economic infrastructures, etc. Also, it might avoid the ecological impact/political graft of industrialization in "underdeveloped" countries.