Forget jumping on a plane and packing your suncream – robots could one day go on holiday for us while we stay at home. Of course, many of us want to properly lounge on a beach and see the sig…
So when a guide hugs the avatar in Venice, the operator in Genoa felt it too thanks to haptic feedback technology.
"On the one hand, the recent pandemic taught us that advanced telepresence systems might become necessary very quickly across different fields, like healthcare and logistics," said research lead Daniele Pucci, from the Italian Institute of Technology. "On the other hand, avatars may allow people with severe physical disabilities to work and accomplish tasks in the real world via the robotic body."What I also see in our near future is the application of this system to the so-calledHaptic tech allows you to feel what the robot toucheswill feature some familiar faces despite being set hundreds of years before the majority of characters were even born.at best, as Europe scrambles to replace Russian parts.