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The Reality of Robot Surrogates How far are we from sending robots into the world in our stead? Telepresence is action at a distance, or the projection of presence where you physically arent. Technically, phoning in to your weekly staff meeting is a form of telepresence. So is joysticking a robot up to a suspected IED in Iraq so a soldier can investigate the scene while sitting in the (relative) safety of an armored vehicle. Researchers are testing brain-machine interfaces on rats and monkeys that would let the animals directly control a robot, but so far the telepresence interfaces at work in the real world are physical. Through wireless Internet connections, video cameras, joysticks, and sometimes audio, humans move robots around at the office, in the operating room, underwater, on the battlefield, and on Mars. spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/humanoids/the-reality-of-robot-surrogates
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:42:53 +0000

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