Conducting a real-time remote handshake with haptics

Summary form only given. A demonstration has been developed that illustrates a bilateral telehaptics platform to enable a local user and a remote user to shake hands in real time over a telecommunications network. The platform has been developed around an off-the-shelf six DOF haptic manipulator and a real time operating system. Only the first three DOF of the device are enabled with haptics. The demonstration shows two devices connected in a bilateral telehaptic configuration on a local network with a network traffic simulator in between the two devices.