The Laparobot is a tele-operated robot designed specifically for training surgeons in advanced laparoscopic techniques. The Laparobot allows a student to practice surgery on a remotely located animal. The system uses standard laparoscopic tools for both the student’s control interface and for performing the in vivo surgery, thereby providing a realistic training platform for non-robotic laparos...

have achieved a world-first success in their joint development of a tele-operated humanoid robot that wears protective clothing and drives an industrial vehicle (backhoe) outdoors in lieu of a human operator as shown in Fig. 1. It shows us that a humanoid robot can expand its capability by using machines designed for the human even in the rain. The use of a tele-operated humanoid robot has a po...

This panel will focus on the security and reliability challenges posed by distributed, mobile tele-health solutions (particularly those based on mobile phones). Academic, clinical, as well as industry panelists with direct experience in the design and implementation of mobile tele-health solutions will provide insights on how those challenges have been addressed thus far, and what are some of t...

The importance of tele-audiology service delivery and accessibility has highlighted with the COVID-19 pandemic. Tele-audiology is an alternative method delivering various hearing intervention services including counselling, evaluation, fitting, rehabilitation through telecommunication. essential goal to obtain best outcomes equivalent face-to-face service. Even though it several advantages in a...

Tele-immersion is one of the applications being developed in conjunction with the Internet-2 initiative. Most of the research in this area has focused on issues pertaining to image acquisition and display, tracking technologies, robotics, haptics, etc. In order to maintain consistency of a tele-immersive experience one also needs to develop a suit of solutions that will ensure proper coordinati...

This paper proposes an overview of a study that conceptually unify the fields of virtual reality and teleoperation, by analyzing the notion of “assistance” to the operator of a virtual reality or tele-operation system. This analysis demonstrates that cases of assistance that are usually considered to belong to virtual reality are not conceptually different from what has been done in tele-operat...