Feel what the robot feels:
TouchDIVER Pro for robotic teleoperation
Controlling a robot remotely is straightforward. Feeling what it touches is not.
With TouchDIVER Pro, an operator can drive a robotic hand and receive tactile feedback in real time. The information travels through touch, the way it would if their hand were physically there. This makes teleoperation intuitive in a way that visual feedback alone cannot achieve.
Bidirectional haptic feedback
Most teleoperation systems are one-directional: the operator sends commands, the robot executes them. What’s missing is the return signal: the robot telling the operator what it’s encountering.
TouchDIVER Pro closes that loop. Force feedback runs across all fingers and the palm: when the robot contacts an object, the resistance comes back to the glove in real time. The operator feels whether a grasp is firm or slipping, whether contact has been made, whether more or less force is needed, without relying on a camera or a sensor dashboard.
How it works and what it tracks
The stack is built on three layers: WEART-Core (Linux middleware), a modular ROS2 node architecture and the robot or simulation environment.
The TouchDIVER Pro captures the full motion of the operator’s hand -and translates it into robot commands in real time. The system is built on a modular software architecture that sits between the glove and the robot, handling tracking, kinematics and haptic actuation as separate, independent layers.
Connecting a new robot requires integrating only the remapping layer specific to that hardware: the rest of the stack remains unchanged. The full loop can be validated end-to-end in simulation before deployment to real hardware, ensuring a safe and predictable path from development to physical operation.
Applications
Anywhere precision manipulation matters and physical presence isn’t possible or isn’t safe, tactile teleoperation changes what’s achievable.
- Industrial manipulation: remote handling of components in constrained or hazardous environments, with tactile confirmation that cameras can’t provide
- Surgical and medical robotics: teleoperated procedures where force feedback reduces the risk of applying too much or too little pressure
- Embodied AI and data collection: high-fidelity human demonstration capture for training robot learning systems
- Research and development: rapid prototyping of manipulation tasks with full sim-to-real validation
TouchDIVER Pro for robotic teleoperation means precise tracking, haptic feedback in your fingers and a modular architecture that connects to your robot: once you’ve felt the difference, remote manipulation will never be the same.