Robot Teleoperation

Robot teleoperation lets a human guide a distant robot when direct access is unsafe, impractical, or impossible, from surgery and space operations to mobile and dexterous manipulation. Interfaces include joysticks, leader arms, gloves, exoskeletons, and VR or augmented reality, while visual, tactile, and force feedback help operators judge contact and motion. Shared autonomy, motion retargeting, predictive control, and learned policies can reduce workload, avoid collisions, and turn demonstrations into training data for robot learning. A central challenge is balancing responsive, intuitive control with stability and safety under network delay, limited sensing, and mismatches between human and robot bodies; broader real-world and clinical validation remains important.