The experience or impression of being present at a location remote from one's own immediate environment. For more information, see our Telepresence pages.

Direct and continuous human control of a teleoperator (Sheridan)

Measurements and information recorded from a remote device and transmitted for use elsewhere.

Use of telepresence and/or teleoperation techniques allowing a surgeon to operate at a location remote from his real physical location. Sometimes also used to refer to remote medical diagnosis of certain conditions, useful in areas where access to medical facilities is scarce.

The location of the sensor platform in a telepresence system - the location which the user at the local site wishes to be telepresent in.

To have attributes pertaining to human function and form; thus an Anthropomorphic Robot Head is a robot head which bears a significant functional resemblance to a human head.

Having dimensions akin to that of human form.

The encoding of real-time video so that it may be transmitted over a low bandwith communications link. One example used by us is the Strathclyde Compression Transform (SCT).

The encoding of audio information in order that it use less bandwidth or storage space on digital media whilst retaining essential audio quality. Popular examples of audio compression techniques include GSM and MP3