Now all we need are astronauts comfortable with bilocation and we can have "manned" missions using a distal body. Cyborgs could probably handle a distal body just fine. Look for people who are blinging up their prosthetics. Hell, look at quadriplegics who need a whole prosthetic body. I wonder if we could get Stephen Hawking to drive one of these things.
Think about all the other jobs this could open up for people with flimsy bodies. Search-and-rescue. Deep-sea work. Nuclear reactor repair.
Terramagne probably has some of this in place already, since their robotics are a couple decades ahead of ours.