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\nAs engineer Manuel Aiple moves his gauntleted hand, the robotic hand a few metres away in ESA\u2019s telerobotics laboratory<\/a> follows in sync.\n<\/p>\n \nIn future, the hope is that human controllers can manipulate orbiting robots or planetary rovers in a similar fashion, across hundreds or thousands of kilometres of space.\n<\/p>\n \nBased at ESA\u2019s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, the lab aims for robot operators to feel as though they are right there \u2013 up in orbit or down on a planet.\n<\/p>\n \nStereo cameras offer 3D vision and the operator feels force-feedback, as found in high-end video game joysticks, to gain a working sense of touch as the robot manipulates objects.\n<\/p>\n \nThis summer, ESA\u2019s latest ATV space freighter will deliver the Lab\u2019s Haptics-1<\/a> experiment to the International Space Station, testing how feedback operates in microgravity, as a prelude to demonstrating orbit-to-ground telerobotic control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \t\t\t\t\t \nAs engineer Manuel Aiple moves his gauntleted hand, the robotic hand a few metres away in ESA\u2019s telerobotics laboratory<\/a> follows in sync.\n<\/p>\n \nIn future, the hope is that human controllers can manipulate orbiting robots or planetary rovers in a similar fashion, across hundreds or thousands of kilometres of space.\n<\/p>\n \nBased at ESA\u2019s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, the lab aims for robot operators to feel as though they are right there \u2013 up in orbit or down on a planet.\n<\/p>\n \nStereo cameras offer 3D vision and the operator feels force-feedback, as found in high-end video game joysticks, to gain a working sense of touch as the robot manipulates objects.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n