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teleop

teleop noun: teleoperation (the remote operation of a machine or device).

Noun

teleop (countable and uncountable, plural teleops)

  1. Teleoperation (the remote operation of a machine or device).
    • Sanctuary's teleoperated humanoid is very capable, but teleoperation is of course not scalable in the way that even partial autonomy is. What all of this teleop has allowed Sanctuary to do is to collect lots and lots of data about how humans do stuff. The long-term plan is that some of those human...2023 May 16, Evan Ackerman, “Sanctuary's Humanoid Robot Is for General-Purpose Autonomy”, in IEEE Spectrum, New York, N.Y.: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...
    • Von der Ohe said that tele-driving technology is so inexpensive from a capital expenditure perspective, he expects that within five to 10 years, any kind of vehicle that runs from the production line will be teleop-enabled, leveraging the ADAS cameras that are already on the vehicle.2024 September 5, Kirsten Korosec, “Driverless car-sharing startup Vay steers toward B2B services”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2024

Forms of teleop

pluralteleops

Origin of teleop

Clipping of teleoperation, equivalent to tele- + op.

Questions about teleop

What does teleop mean?
Teleop means teleoperation (the remote operation of a machine or device).
What part of speech is teleop?
Teleop is a noun.
What is the plural of teleop?
The plural of teleop is teleops.

Words near teleop in the dictionary

  1. teleonomically
  2. teleonomies
  3. teleonomist
  4. teleonomists
  5. teleonomy
  6. teleop
  7. teleopeptide
  8. teleoperate
  9. teleoperated
  10. teleoperates
  11. teleoperating

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