Tele-operation and Human Robots Interactions

Abstract

In this document, I tried to give an overview of tele-operation: its history and origins, its background, its drawbacks and the perspectives it might offer to current researches and demands in robotics and other fields. The construction of the future tele-operation/robotics is in progress and many people are still working on it. Surgery, prosthesis, rehabilitation, neurosciences, space, underwater and many other domains use this technology and the effort must be continuous. The ideas described in this document are now facing the field reality through the experiments we are conducting. The preliminary results are encouraging, but a lot of work and a lot of efforts are necessary to progress. I believe that tele-operation can help. However it cannot progress alone, it is necessary to work in multi-disciplinary way: tele-operation needs all the available knowledge, techniques and methods dealing with humans. We believe that technology alone cannot provide tools to achieve the robotics dream.