(a) Steady-hand robot; (b) Micron; (c) “A 73” ; (d) New steady-hand robot; (e) Preceyes; (f) REMS; (g) Bern University robot. Microsurgery requires manipulating delicate tissue or fragile structures ...

Force-feedback bilateral teleoperation—the technology that lets human operators feel and manipulate distant objects via a robot—has accelerated markedly in the past decade. In the comprehensive survey ...

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have already racked up thousands of uninterrupted hours of autonomous driving. But there are still plenty of cases where AVs need humans to intervene and guide their response ...

When it comes to edge cases – fallen trees, road work, officers directing traffic, etc. – autonomous vehicles (AV) continue to remain dependent on human assistance. Which is a key reason that, for the ...

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series: Automation and jobs in the new normal. When an interviewer pressed Postmates VP Ali Kashani last year on whether the company’s use of ...

Teleoperation can be of assistance when a car that usually runs largely autonomously cannot cope on its own. DLR is conducting research into ways of implementing the concept of teleoperation. This ...

Vehicle teleoperation has never been so … legal. Teleoperation enables a human operator to control vehicles from far away. In July, Florida became the sixth state to explicitly allow autonomous ...

What is teleoperation? Why is it so critical for autonomous vehicles? Why it’s not as simple as it seems. Who doesn’t know about self-driving cars? Perhaps the first time you heard of autonomous ...