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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Can You Touch the Internet? A Journey in Remote Touch With Edge Computing and Haptic Coding

Andreas Noll

What does it take to safely transmit physical touch across the internet? Discover how engineers use edge computing and haptic algorithms to conquer extreme latency and trick human perception.

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#1 about 3 min

Introduction to remote touch and haptics

How remote touch and haptics digitize the human sense of touch similarly to audio and video.

#2 about 2 min

Potential applications for remote touch computing

How haptic technology will impact fields spanning robotics, healthcare, remote work, and shopping.

#3 about 3 min

Understanding the discrete human senses of touch

The distinction between kinesthetic forces and macroscopic and microscopic tactile sensations for interpreting physical interactions.

#4 about 3 min

Digitalizing kinesthetic and tactile haptic sensations

An exploration of early haptic feedback devices, robotic arms, and wearable tactile emulators.

#5 about 2 min

Network requirements for transmitting haptic data

The strict latency, stability, and reliability constraints needed to transmit haptic data over the internet.

#6 about 3 min

Leveraging edge computing for kinesthetic stability

Using Weber's law to compress kinesthetic signals and deploying edge clusters to maintain local stability.

#7 about 3 min

Haptic coding and clustering of tactile signals

Developing custom codecs and hierarchical clustering algorithms to compress high-bandwidth tactile data without losing sensory fidelity.

#8 about 2 min

The future overlap of artificial intelligence and haptics

The technological and philosophical implications of artificial intelligence systems developing a physical sense of touch.

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