#Teleoperation

[entertainment-and-you]

Tesla’s Robotaxi Revolution Stalled? Why Texas Lawmakers Are Slamming the Brakes

Tesla’s bold plan to launch its much-hyped Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, has run into a roadblock. A group of seven Austin-based lawmakers has sent a heartfelt letter to the electric vehicle giant, asking it to pump the brakes on its June 22, 2025, rollout until a new autonomous vehicle law takes effect on September 1, 2025. This delay, they argue, is crucial for ensuring public safety and…

[arrestelonmusk]

RoboTaxis won’t just fail — they could actively destroy Tesla’s future. With FSD still struggling, Elon Musk now floats remote drivers as the fallback plan. That’s not innovation. That’s a lawsuit simulator. Here’s why RoboTaxis might be worth less than zero: #Tesla #ElonMusk #RoboTaxi

[totoshappylife]

5G-Enabled Teleoperated Driving: An Experimental

Excerpt from PDF: 1 5G-Enabled Teleoperated Driving: An Experimental Evaluation Mehdi Testouri, Gamal Elghazaly, Faisal Hawlader, and Raphael Frank Abstract—Teleoperated driving enables remote human inter- vention in autonomous vehicles, addressing challenges in complex driving environments. However, its effectiveness depends on ultra-low latency, high-reliability communication. This paper…

[josuejuniorworld]

👨‍🤖 Phoenix Bot: O Humanoide que Revoluciona a Robótica!

👨‍🤖 Phoenix Bot: O Humanoide que Revoluciona a Robótica! áudio da matéria aqui: Já viu muitos robôs humanoides por aí? 🚫 Esqueça tudo! O Phoenix Bot da Sanctuary AI chegou para mudar o jogo. Com “as melhores mãos robóticas do mundo” ✌️ e um movimento autônomo incrível, ele está deixando para trás até os robôs da Tesla e Figure! 🚀 👉 O que torna o Phoenix tão especial? Velocidade absurda: Ele se…

[spacenutspod]

Astronomy Daily - The Podcast: S03E185 Welcome to Astronomy AstroDailyPod, your trusted source for the latest in Space and astronomy news. Join hosts Steve and Hallie for an enlightening journey through the cosmos, packed with the latest updates and stories that are sure to ignite your curiosity. Highlights: - Hunter's Moon Delight: Experience the beauty of the Hunter's Moon as observed from Newcastle, Australia. This celestial event has captivated skywatchers worldwide, overtaking the excitement of recent auroras. - SpaceX Satellite Launch: SpaceX successfully launched 20 spare OneWeb satellites to bolster the French operator UTelsat's Low Earth Orbit broadband network. Despite ground infrastructure delays, UTelsat is on track to offer global services by spring. - Moon Train and Robot Rovers: Discover the latest advancements in lunar exploration with remote-controlled robots and NASA's innovative FLOAT project. These developments promise to revolutionise how we explore and utilise the moon's resources. - Orionids Meteor Shower: Prepare for the spectacular Orionids meteor shower, with meteors originating from Halley's comet providing a stunning celestial display. Get tips for the best viewing experience from NASA's experts. - Space Force Mission: True Anomaly and Firefly Aerospace partner for a rapid response mission with the US Space Force, testing the ability to counter orbital threats on short notice. For more Space news, visit our website at astronomydaily.io. There, you can sign up for our free AstroDailyPod newsletter, catch up on all the latest Space and Astronomy news with our constantly updating newsfeed, and listen to all our previous episodes. Don't forget to follow us on social media. Just search for #AstroDailyPod on Facebook, X, YouTube, and TikTok. Thank you for tuning in. This is Steve signing off. Until next time, keep looking up and stay curious about the wonders of our universe. Sponsor Links: NordVPN - www.bitesz.com/nordvpn - currently Up to 74% off + 3 extra months Old Glory - www.bitesz.com/oldglory Sport and Entertainment Merch. Over 100,00 items in stock Proton Mail - www.bitesz.com/protonmail Secure email that protects your privacy Malwarebytes - www.bitesz.com/malwarebytes Premium protection for you and all your devices! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-the-podcast--5648921/support.

[biglisbonnews]

Telekom, MIRA test teleoperated shuttles in Bonn Deutsche Telekom AG and MIRA GmbH have jointly launched a pilot project for teleoperated driving. The project partners are testing the shuttle service with teleoperated operation between various Telekom locations The post Telekom, MIRA test teleoperated shuttles in Bonn appeared first on VanillaPlus - The global voice of Telecoms IT. https://www.vanillaplus.com/2023/08/07/82464-telekom-mira-test-teleoperated-shuttles-in-bonn/

[lonestarflight]

Earlier version of the Martin Marietta Teleoperator Retrieval System, which would have been used to boost the Skylab Orbital Workshop into a higher orbit by STS-2 Columbia.

"The Teleoperator Retrieval System (TRS), to be used in conjunction with the space shuttle in the early 1980s, approaches a satellite for docking and retrieval. This system will be used to survey, stabilize, and maneuver payloads in low earth orbit."

Date: 1977

NASA ID: S77-002623

[industryinsightsandanalysis]

Teleoperation and Telerobotics Market: Current Analysis and Forecast (2024-2032)

According to a new report by UnivDatos Market Insights, the Teleoperation and Telerobotics Market is expected to reach USD by 2032 by growing at a CAGR of ~18.6%.

Introduction

The market of teleoperation and telerobotic systems is developing very fast across the globe, offering a brilliant solution to control machines and robots from a distance. These technologies enable operations to be conducted where they are dangerous or impractical for an operator to be physically present or over huge distances leading to increased output, safety, and effectiveness. Starting from health care, manufacturing, aerospace, and defense, teleoperation and telerobotics are the technologies that break the barriers of industries and explore new remote working and automated possibilities. This article focuses on the fundamental aspects of the teleoperation and telerobotic market today, the factors influencing the market, new trends, challenges, and future advancement of the market.

Market Overview

Teleoperation may in this context be understood as the real-time partial or complete manipulation of machines or systems by a human at a different location to the site of operation. Telerobotics takes this concept a step further by overlaying self-driving features and robotic apparatus to accomplish higher simplicity and precision. These technologies have received large acceptance in fields where direct people participation is unadvisable, unfeasible, or uneconomical. For instance, in the healthcare department, through using of teleoperation systems surgeons practice robotic surgeries, which gives more accurate outcomes and shortens times for patients’ recovery periods. Industrial telerobotics improves production lines and sustains vital structures in hazardous territory, including nuclear power stations and offshore oil-drilling platforms.

The teleoperation and telerobotic market for the global world has shown rapid development because of many factors such as enhancements in robotics technology, artificial intelligence, and utilization of real-time transportation networks. Organizations are now applying these technologies in a bid to cut expenses, minimize hazards, and get better organizational functions. Another major contributor has been 5G technology which has provided faster and less delayed communication that has now become the basis for smooth teleoperation enhancing chances of broader implementations.

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Several key factors are driving the expansion of the global teleoperation and telerobotic market:

Progress in attitude control devices and robotics systems – Modern technology and telerobotic technologies are profoundly benefiting from AI and machine learning which helps the systems learn from the operators.

High-Risk Operations – As various industries push for remote operations due to the hazardous working conditions, mining, oil & gas, and defense are leading adopters of teleoperation systems.

Growing Implementation of New Generation Network – Realization of 5G technology enables the desired high-speed low latency communication required for actual time remote control of robots and machinery.

Increase in the usage of teleoperation in Self-Driven and Semi-Autonomous Cars – The indicated technology in self-driven and semi-self-driven cars is increasing, enabling controllers to oversee cars during complicated maneuvers.

Telemedicine – The need for remote surgeries is increasing due to pandemic or geographic issues and it is pushing the uptake of teleoperated robotic surgery systems.

Emerging Trends in the Market

The teleoperation and telerobotic market is experiencing several exciting trends and technological advancements, which are shaping the future of these systems:

Application of Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) – VR/AR characterizes the experience through natural and intuitive operations, making interaction through the operating environment easy.

On Human-Robot Collaboration – Industries are now shifting their attention to cobots that interact with human employees, flexibility, and accuracy of work.

Widening of Space Research Uses – Space-bound telerobotic systems are developing into a necessity for space expeditions because astronauts can manipulate planetary surface robotic constructs in scientific analysis and construction.

Advanced Tactile Interfaces – Tactile interfaces are used to provide the operator with a feeling of the physical environment and increase the accuracy and stability of robotic systems used in operations or repair work.

New defense opportunities – Using telerobotic systems for observation, defusing of bombs, and telecontrol of military vehicles without involving human personnel directly in dangerous areas.

Major Uses across Various Industries

The teleoperation and telerobotic market are diverse, with applications across multiple sectors:

Healthcare: Probably the most sophisticated is the utilization of of telerobotic surgery since it allows the actual conducting of surgeries from remote areas and at the same time increased accuracy. Remote diagnostics and remote consultations are also emerging as services, which are indeed widely utilized to expand the scope of healthcare services.

Manufacturing and Industry: In manufacturing, they are applied to real-time control of machines from a distance so that an operator can monitor production without physically intervening. It proves useful in conditions that are dangerous for people such as chemical factories, nuclear power plants, and the like.

Defense and Military Applications: Telerobotic systems have become popular in defense to deal with bombs, spying, and operating unmanned vehicles. These systems assist in preventing the loss of military personnel while at the same time enabling effectiveness.

Space Exploration: Still, telerobotics has been widely implemented and used for space exploration, especially by NASA and other space centers. While rover machines are operated from Earth and remotely study surface conditions of distant planets, perform experiments, and construct space facilities.

Mining and Oil & Gas: In mining, teleoperated vehicles and equipment enable the operator to work in an area that is deep underground, or where conditions are unfriendly to human beings. In the same way, the oil and gas industries employ telerobotics in controlling the operational activities in offshore machinery or in situations where direct human influence is perilous.

Challenges in the Market

Despite the promising growth, the teleoperation and telerobotic market faces several challenges:

High Implementation Costs: The upfront costs of developing and deploying teleoperation and telerobotic systems can be prohibitive, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The hardware, software, and network infrastructure required to support these systems can be expensive.

Connectivity Limitations: Despite the emergence of 5G networks, there are still many areas, where stable connection with high speed is required for real-time teleoperation. This issue poses a challenge to the implementation of telerobotic systems in rural or relatively remote regions.

Security Concerns: Like any networked system teleoperation and telerobotic technologies present certain risks among which are risks related to cyber threats. Protecting these systems is of paramount importance, especially for organizations operating in such sectors as defense, healthcare, and essential infrastructure.

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Regulatory Hurdles: Telerobotics is highly regulated in sectors including those related to healthcare and defense. Undulating with these regulations may hinder the implementation of new technologies and could pose challenges regarding entrants.

Operator Training and Skill Gaps: The presence of expert opinion to control the systems is extremely valuable in the overall functionality of teleoperated and telerobotic systems. One of the problems faced by most industries is the ability to ensure the workforce is trained sufficiently.

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Conclusion

The teleoperation and telerobotic market at the global level is expected to change industrial processes and their performance significantly, providing them with improved work conditions and opportunities. These technologies are finding application in healthcare, defense, and other sectors to address field operations that otherwise had restricted or dangerous access mechanisms changing the existing paradigms. Growing with the advancements in artificial intelligence, Robotics, and communication networks, this marketing has immense growth potential. Nevertheless, high costs, connectivity, and security issues will be the key factors that will determine how teleoperation and telerobotics can be fully developed to their potential. Over the years, those technologies will continue to grow exponentially, and they will bring dramatic changes to industries and departments as well as promote new forms of remote controlling for more extensive ranges of work.

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[neriyon]

"Remember that the best way to protect your electronics is to unplug them before storms :)" why thank you random teleoperator text message, I'll just develop the ability to see in future so I can predict every storm before it starts

[whirligig-girl]

A modern Mellanoid Slime Worm spacecraft, the Ice Giants Explorer. Intended to launch in 2383, it ended up fast-tracked and launched under a completely different mission. It would have explored the four ice giants of the Zwo-Nmu system: Glarpi, Shpler, Euaua, and Flible, with a possible mission extension to distant, never-before-seen planet Schmidt. It's depicted here using its T.E.N.D.R.I.L. (Teleoperated extendible-node robotic interface limb) to deploy one of its many robotic probes to land on a small captured satellite of Shpler, S/2351 S2.

The spacecraft has two main propulsion systems, a fission-impulse drive and a pulsed warp engine. The fission-impulse drive are modified solid-core nuclear-thermal-rockets utilizing subspace field coils on the exhaust end similar to those utilized on starfleet impulse drives. However, the power generation for those impulse coils is provided by a fission reactor, instead of a fusion reactor. This results in approximately a doubling of the specific impulse of the engine while preserving thrust characteristics.

The pulsed warp engine uses a bank of high-density capacitors charged using the fission reactors, to provide short bursts of warp speed. Modern mellanoid transwarp coils can provide speeds of up to warp 5 on the new scale, but are bottlenecked by the power generation and storage rate. As such the pulsed warp drive technology is currently not usable for interstellar exploration, but it does allow for much faster intra-system manuevers. (The bright photon-wakes visible from many astronomical units away, and their associated radiation hazards, are considered an acceptable risk.)

[alexanderwales]

The robots at the Tesla event being tele-operated is so funny to me, mostly because I keep thinking about what it must be like to be one of the people doing that. Like, rich people paying you to serve drinks, but you're doing it through a machine that cost tens of thousands of dollars? This is some scifi dystopia stuff. Actually, I think I must have seen it before somewhere, but Surrogates is the closest that comes to mind, and that was people teleoperating fit, attractive robots to live their ideal lives, which is kind of the opposite.

I'm feeling really compelled to cook up a short story about teleoperated robot maids. Maybe some The Jetsons fanfic where Rosie is being run by someone in South America.

[apas-95]

obsessed with this video, demonstrating live teleoperation of a humanoid robot using body-tracking VR, where the engineers used boxing a punching bag and speed ball as a demonstration of the ability for the robot to make fast movements and resist impacts while actively controlled by a human, because half the comments were critiquing the operator's boxing form and half were making suggestions for design changes for the robot that could make it better at boxing

[mariacallous]

Self-driving vehicle developers don’t usually love talking about “teleoperation”—when a human guides or drives robot cars remotely. It can feel like a dirty secret. Shouldn’t an autonomous vehicle operate, well, autonomously?

But experts say teleoperations are, at least right now, a critical part of any robot taxi service, including Tesla's Robotaxi. The tech, though impressive, is still in development, and the autonomous systems still need humans to guide them through less-common and especially sticky road situations. Plus, a bedrock principle of safety engineering is that every system needs a backup—doubly so for new robotic ones that involve two-ton EVs driving themselves on public roads.

And yet, just days out from Tesla’s launch of its long-awaited (and much delayed) Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, the public still doesn’t know much at all about its teleoperations systems. Tesla has posted a job related to teleoperations that states the role will be responsible for developing the application "that our Remote Operators use to interface with our cars and robots,” an application where these operators will be “transported into the device’s world using a state-of-the-art VR rig that allows them to remotely perform complex and intricate tasks.”

Alarmingly, several government spokespeople—representing the city of Austin, the state of Texas, and the US’s top road safety regulator—didn’t respond to questions about Tesla’s teleoperations. Indeed, Austin and the Texas Department of Transportation referred all our questions about Tesla technology to the company itself. Tesla, which disbanded its public relations team in 2020, didn’t respond to WIRED’s questions.

Last month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the country’s road safety watchdog, wrote a letter to Tesla posing questions about, among other things, how or if Tesla planned to use teleoperations. How will its human staff be expected to monitor, supervise, or even intervene when its systems are on the road? The government asked the company to respond by June 19, which will be after the service supposedly launches on June 12, according to reporting from Bloomberg earlier this month. NHTSA repeatedly would not respond to WIRED's inquiries into what it knows about Tesla's teleoperations.

The Los Angeles Times reported that humans used teleoperations to manipulate the robot Optimus during a “Cybercab” debut event in Los Angeles, and when Optimus showed off its new hands a month later, catching a tennis ball in mid-air, an engineer for the company acknowledged that humans similarly used teleoperations. The company also has a permit to test autonomous vehicles in California with a driver behind the wheel. The state has much stricter rules than Texas and requires some kind of “communication link” between testing vehicles and remote operators, so it’s likely the company has some kind of system.

While not shedding any light on exactly how Tesla's teleoperations will work in the city, Austin Transportation and Public Works spokesperson Cristal Corrales wrote in an email: “The City works with AV [autonomous vehicle] companies before and during deployment to obtain training for first responders, establish expectations for ongoing communication and share information about infrastructure and events.” Texas Department of Transportation spokesperson Laura Butterbrodt said in an emailed statement: “Texas law allows for AV testing and operations on Texas roadways as long as they meet the same safety and insurance requirements as every other vehicle on the road.”

Bedeviling this Robotaxi mystery is the fact that the autonomous vehicle industry hasn’t coalesced around a definition for “teleoperations.” So as Tesla watchers await the Austin service, it’s worth understanding a bit more about these teleoperations, and how they work.

The interior of Tesla's autonomous Cybercab taxi, showing the complete lack of physical controls—no steering wheel or pedals. Photograph: JONAS ROOSENS/Getty Images

A Little Help From My Friends

It’s worth defining some terms. What self-driving-car developers usually call “remote operations” refer to a few different sorts of human jobs. There are, first, the operators who deal with other humans. These are people trained to interact with autonomous taxi riders when they have questions or need assistance in an emergency. Alphabet’s Waymo, the undisputed leader in self-driving, has a big Support button on its in-car passenger screens, which can connect riders with these folks. These operators can also be people trained to interact with law enforcement or emergency responders when they need assistance.

Then there are operators who deal with the autonomous system. Some of these people may work in “remote assistance.” More confusion: Self-driving car developers give these tasks different names and titles. Amazon subsidiary Zoox uses “teleguidance”; the self-driving-truck developers at Aurora like “teleassistance”; Tesla appears to stick to “teleoperation”; Waymo calls these workers “fleet response agents.” Whatever they’re called, these humans are meant to guide the autonomous system when it needs help. A car might alert people, for example, when it has encountered a roadblock, like construction equipment; the remote assistant might suggest a lane change or a turn or even a quick dip onto a road’s shoulder to get around it.

These human assistants can also sometimes reroute an autonomous vehicle if its planned itinerary no longer makes sense—maybe a road is unexpectedly closed off for a street fair. They can also sometimes help the car identify objects that have, for whatever reason, confused its sensors: a plastic bag flapping in the wind or a traffic light (red or green?).Got a Tip?Are you a former or current Tesla employee or know more about the company’s Robotaxi operations? WIRED would like to speak to you. Using a non-work phone or computer, please reach out to reporter Aarian Marshall on Signal at aarianm.30

Remote assistance should be a part of every safe self-driving-vehicle program, says Philip Koopman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who studies autonomous vehicle safety. “The technology is not there for them to be able to handle everything, and that’s OK,” he says. Having humans operate in the background of autonomous systems, then, isn’t “cheating” at self-driving. It’s understanding the limits of today’s technology—and what it takes to run a profitable business based on self-driving cars.

Still, some remote assistance programs are safer than others, Koopman says. Some of that comes down to “triggers,” or how the system knows it needs help and turns to its human overlords. Is it the human assistant’s job to notice that the vehicle is stuck—or about to smash into something? Or is the onus on the vehicle to ask for aid? The safer bet, he says, is to train the technology to know when it needs intervention rather than relying on the vigilance of the human auxiliaries.

Asking for help can be very hard for people—but it might be harder for robots. That’s because autonomous systems must automatically provide the humans with everything they need to know to assist: what happened, where the vehicle is in space, and if there’s anything around it. Only then can the humans guide the robots.

A Tesla Cybercab prototype at a Tesla store in San Jose, California, in November 2024. Photograph: David Paul Morris/Getty Images

Humans in the Loop

If that sounds tough, even tougher—and more controversial—is “remote driving.” This is what most people probably think of when they hear “teleoperations”: Someone far away from the supposed self-driving car, behind their own steering wheel or joystick, piloting it like a long-distance RC car.

Remote driving has even more technical challenges. Ben Shukman should know—as an engineer at a startup called Phantom Auto that focused on remote driving, he believes he was the first to do it on public roads. The first issue is connectivity. “Your ability to drive a car without being in the car is only as stable as the internet connection that connects you to it,” he says.

But anyone who has called a friend on a long drive knows that networks drop in and out as you move in space. There are technical ways to knit together networks, but those aren’t foolproof. This leads to big issues with latency. So imagine the worst-case scenario: A robot car needs help navigating around an accident on a highway, a remote driver gets it moving, and then … the connection dies.

Another challenge in remote driving: Helping drivers understand the experience of driving without actually being in the car. It’s hard to understand how quickly the momentum is shifting, or how hard you’re braking if you’re not inside the car. Shukman says it’s possible to build a user interface that gives remote drivers a sense of what it’s like on the road, but this takes thought and time.

For these reasons, Shukman says, remote driving is less than safe in environments where vehicles are moving quickly in unpredictable environments, even above a handful of miles per hour. Today, the technique is mostly used in public to get delivery robots out of jams. Those move so slowly that a few milliseconds of dropped connection likely won’t spell disaster. The startup where he worked, Phantom Auto, eventually pivoted to operating forklifts remotely in warehouse settings. (It shut down last year, but its founders are sticking with its thesis: Their new startup keeps humans “in the loop” by building a platform that allows people to easily intervene to help in AI search.)

The Tesla Question

If Tesla does make good on its promise to start its Robotaxi service in Austin this month, how will it handle teleoperations? A Morgan Stanley research note from its head of global autos and shared mobility research Adam Jonas claims the service will be heavily teleoperated, though Tesla has not confirmed any of this.

The job posting for software engineers working in teleoperation on “Optimus & Robotaxi” explicitly says the company’s remote operators will be “transported into the device’s world using a state-of-the-art VR rig” that will supposedly let them remotely execute intricate tasks requiring some form of human involvement. This sounds more like remote driving—direct intervention with the driving task—than remote assistance.

If Tesla’s remote operators are meant to closely monitor its Robotaxis’ systems, “I think it’s going to be very difficult to expand beyond a few vehicles and a small area,” says Koopman, the professor. Or at least, to do it safely.

In fact, that’s what CEO Elon Musk has said—that Tesla’s Robotaxi launch will start with just 10 to 20 cars and will expand from there. Maybe there will be some robots. But the better questions are what the humans supporting them will be doing—and whether they’ll be doing it safely.

[radio-dmon]

Remote Control

Vox is lacking what every serviceable picture box needs: A remote control to teleoperate his functions from afar. Alastor solves the issue.

For the Vox Humiliation Week, Day 4: Orgasm Control

explicit, humiliation, verbal degradation, mind control, orgasm denial, orgasm control, edging, hand jobs, temperature/sensation play, desperation, bondage/restraints, the tiniest bit of mentioned cannibalism [...] @voxhumiliationweek

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Ah, he should have done this an eternity ago. As little as he was willing to admit on it, playing with his favorite picture box’s functions had become a delicious joy. His old pal’s last public appearances had been pure misery. Why, for him at least. Alastor, on the other hand, deemed his announcements slightly enjoyable as of late – probably for the very first time since Vox's arrival in hell. It was delightful to watch him while picking the most inconvenient moments to toy with the TV’s settings, making it hard for him to keep his speech straight and to focus on his thoughts. One time, he had attempted to ‘switch channels’, so to speak, as a small experiment to control Vox's mind completely. Sadly, his idea had failed and the TV resisted the electrostatic push. However, to be fully honest, he preferred it that way: His old friend still able to make decisions, staying the master of his thoughts, yet not of his own body. Of course, it had taken mere days until he had stormed into his radio tower, begging for him to turn on a certain ability again he had disabled for the time being. Well, everything came with a price. And he had been in the mood to entertain him with a game. [...]

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