Insights on Robot Teleoperation and Automation Technologies

Teleoperation is how robotics teams ship today while building toward full autonomy. These are our notes from the field — how we hit sub-40ms latency, what breaks at scale, and what we're learning from the operators driving real robots, every day.

The Best Teleoperation Platform for Humanoid Robots

The Best Teleoperation Platform for Humanoid Robots

Ken Dixson 7 minute read

Humanoids are the hardest thing you can put on the other end of a remote connection. Here is what separates a teleoperation platform that survives that from... more »

Adamo x Trossen Partnership Announcement

Adamo x Trossen Partnership Announcement

2 minute read

Adamo's teleoperation stack is now natively integrated into all Trossen arms, bringing sub-40ms remote operation and synchronized data capture to the... more »

How much does teleoperation cost?

How much does teleoperation cost?

7 minute read

A managed teleoperation service is priced as two separate things. There is the platform: the streaming and control layer that connects a robot to a... more »

How do professional robot teleoperation services handle 24/7 coverage?

How do professional robot teleoperation services handle 24/7 coverage?

8 minute read

TLDR: Professional teleoperation services hold 24/7 coverage with six overlapping mechanisms. Operators work rotating 8- or 12-hour shifts so a control... more »

Robot Teleoperation vs Autonomy: Why Human in the Loop Still Matters

Robot Teleoperation vs Autonomy: Why Human in the Loop Still Matters

Ken Dixson 8 minute read

Full autonomy is the goal every robotics roadmap points at, but the machines shipping today still hand the hard moments to a person. Here is why that... more »

Adamo Teleoperation Data Collection for Remote Robot Operations

Adamo Teleoperation Data Collection for Remote Robot Operations

7 minute read

The interventions your operators handle today are the training data your autonomy stack needs tomorrow. Most teams throw that data away without realizing... more »

Adamo Pub/Sub: A Better Teleoperation Developer Experience

Adamo uses pub/sub for a quality developer experience

Ken Dixson 7 minute read

Every teleoperation vendor promises low latency. Far fewer can answer the question that actually predicts your integration timeline: does the platform... more »

Adamo vs WebRTC benchmarking: Teleoperation under poor networks

Adamo vs WebRTC benchmarking: Teleoperation under poor networks

Ken Dixson 14 minute read

Why reliability under packet loss, not best case latency, is the number that indicates true performance of a teleoperation platform. TL;DR. A... more »

Why WebRTC Fails Teleoperation, and Why Adamo Wins

Why WebRTC Fails Teleoperation, and Why Adamo Wins

Ken Dixson 8 minute read

WebRTC was built for video calls, not teleoperation. The gap shows up the moment a robot moves. TL;DR: WebRTC carries everything that is not audio or video... more »