“You can always tell how serious a company is about unmanned by how seriously they talk about teleop” a vendor once told me. Nevertheless, we found an incredible amount of industry and investor resistance to our teleop-dependent approach. Source The dream of full autonomy is a compelling one for us roboticists, but I wonder whether it is a practical one if you are looking for medium-term impact. Teleoperation solves many of the same economic and practical problems as full autonomy in many use cases of robotics while being easier to actually bring to users:
Teleoperation
Teleoperation
Teleoperation
“You can always tell how serious a company is about unmanned by how seriously they talk about teleop” a vendor once told me. Nevertheless, we found an incredible amount of industry and investor resistance to our teleop-dependent approach. Source The dream of full autonomy is a compelling one for us roboticists, but I wonder whether it is a practical one if you are looking for medium-term impact. Teleoperation solves many of the same economic and practical problems as full autonomy in many use cases of robotics while being easier to actually bring to users: