• n  the area of robotics that is concerned with the control of robots from a distance

News & Articles

• Testing the Future: Astronaut in Space Remote-Controls Robot in California
  During a test on July 26, NASA engineers placed a robot in a simulated lunar landscape. An astronaut on the International Space Station controlled the rover from 400 kilometers overhead. This simulation was the first step in what may one day be the future of space exploration using telerobotics.        
  July 30, 2013 - Wired News
• Station astronauts remotely control planetary rover from space
  On June 17 and July 26, NASA tested the Surface Telerobotics exploration concept, in which an astronaut in an orbiting spacecraft remotely operates a robot on a planetary surface.
  July 30, 2013 - Science Daily

Quotes

• Sean O'Keefe in Independent Online
  What we are looking for is not autonomous robotics, but telerobotics. If this mission goes forward, people will still be servicing Hubble,O'Keefe told the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Denver, Colorado.