Telepresence: Actual and Virtual: Promises and Perils of Converging New Realities

Telepresence: Actual and Virtual explores the history of telepresence from the 1948 developments of master-slave manipulation, through to current telepresence technology used in space, undersea, surgery and telemedicine, operations in nuclear and other hazardous environments, policing and surveillance, agriculture, construction, mining, warehousing, education, amusement, social media, and other contexts. It also describes the various operator hand and body controls and the corresponding telerobotic actuation of robotic hands, arms, and locomotion. This book reviews the sensing and control technology, its history and likely future, and discusses the many research and policy issues that are raised. The book also takes up key questions relating to social and ethical issues, given that a person's mechanical reach is becoming unlimited, enabling one to perform mischievous or harmful acts without identification, and what that portends for future developments in telepresence, including regulation and recommended directions of development.

The primary audience for this book is professionals interested in human-robot interaction, human factors engineering, virtual reality, applications to space and undersea exploration, telemedicine and telesurgery, firefighting, mechanized agriculture, policing, drone surveillance, warehouse parts' fetching, mining, and military operations.

《遠程存在：實際與虛擬》探討了遠程存在的歷史，從1948年的主從操作發展到目前在太空、海底、手術和遠程醫療、核能和其他危險環境操作、警務和監視、農業、建築、礦業、倉儲、教育、娛樂、社交媒體等各種情境中使用的遠程存在技術。它還描述了各種操作者手部和身體控制以及相應的遠程機器人手部、手臂和運動的操縱。本書回顧了感知和控制技術，其歷史和可能的未來，並討論了許多研究和政策問題。本書還提出了與社會和倫理問題有關的關鍵問題，考慮到一個人的機械範圍正在變得無限，使人能夠在不被識別的情況下進行惡作劇或有害行為，以及這對遠程存在未來發展的影響，包括監管和發展方向的建議。

本書的主要讀者是對人機交互、人因工程、虛擬現實、太空和海底探索應用、遠程醫療和遠程手術、消防、機械化農業、警務、無人機監視、倉儲零件提取、礦業和軍事行動感興趣的專業人士。

Thomas B. Sheridan is Ford Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Psychology Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Thomas B. Sheridan 是麻省理工學院（MIT）的機械工程和應用心理學名譽福特教授。