Teleoperation
Remote control of robots by human operators through interfaces and feedback systems. Every Robotics Weekly story on Teleoperation, newest first. 7 stories since September 2026.
- Minerva exits stealth with Roger, a hazmat humanoid
The company says a specialist drives the robot from a command post, and it is not pitching full autonomy.
- Digit ran 12 hours of autonomous tote picking at IROS
Chris Paxton says the Agility Robotics humanoid worked a previously unseen booth at 1x speed, with roughly 500 teleoperated demos behind the policy.
- Paxton says Mind-1's fast videos look like UMI, not teleop
One researcher's read on a humanoid video that MindOn has not explained.
- Chestnut pairs an 18-DOF hand with a matching capture rig
The wearable exoskeleton logs per-joint angles to 0.1 degrees, so human data lands in the same action space as the robot hand.
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- Berkeley turns one human demo into a policy for any robot hand
Jitendra Malik, a collaborator on the work, used it to ask whether teleoperation is still needed.
- OpenArm open-sources a humanoid, CAD to teleop
Lukas Ziegler profiled the Tokyo project, which sells as a kit or prebuilt and shows no task demos.
- Chris Paxton calls Ultra and Digit clips teleop
Two impressive manipulation videos landed the same day, and a researcher who works on one of the policies said a human was steering.
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