Force-feedback experiment on Space Station

NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore operating ESA’s Haptics-1 force-feedback in weightlessness aboard the International Space Station on New Year's Eve 2014. By gathering information on physiological factors such as sensitivity of feeling and perception limits, the aim is to gather data guiding the design of future robotic control systems.

The Haptics-1 experiment system was designed and built at the Telerobotics and Haptics Laboratory at ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.