Jeff Bezos gets hands-on with haptic telerobotics

The advanced platform allows the user to control robotic hands using gloves that provide realistic tactile feedback. It was developed by an international team of scientists and engineers from the Shadow Robot Company, SynTouch, HaptX, and the Japanese parent company of All Nippon Airways, ANA Holdings. Recently, that team conducted a test where a user in California wearing the gloves manipulated a range of objects in London via the robotic hands.

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At the re:Mars event in Las Vegas, Bezos used the gloves system to stack plastic cups a few feet away, as well as play with a small ball and stack rings in a puzzle. “That is really impressive,” he said upon finishing the demo. “The tactile feedback is really tremendous.”

Amazon’s re:MARS Tech Showcase was the first time the system had been tested outside of a lab environment. While still in the early stages of development, there are numerous potential applications for the telerobotic platform, including bomb disposal, deep- sea engineering, clean room manufacturing and even off-world exploration.