Delivering real reality to the World Wide Web via telerobotics

Abstract

Robots provide us with a means to move around in, visual- ize, and interact with a remote physical world. We have ex- ploited these physical properties coupled with the growing diversity of users on the World Wide Web (WWW) (1) to cre- ate a WWW based telerobotic remote environment browser. This browser, called Mechanical Gaze, allows multiple re- mote WWW users to control a robot arm with an attached camera to explore a real remote environment. The environ- ment varies but is typically composed of collections of phys- ical museum exhibits which WWW users can view at various positions, orientations, and levels of resolution. http://vive.cs.berkeley.edu/capek