Haptic Glove

A teleoperation glove that both records hand motion and pushes force back against the operator's fingers.

An ordinary data glove only records: it measures finger bend and hand position. A haptic (force-feedback) glove adds a return channel that sends the force a virtual object or a remote robot hand experiences back to the operator's own hand. The usual approach mounts an exoskeleton-like mechanism on the back of the hand and fingers, using motors, brakes, or pneumatic/hydraulic actuators to resist further bending of the fingers, so the wearer feels an object's size and stiffness; some designs add vibration or microfluidic contact points to simulate the feel of contact — HaptX gloves, for instance, press against the skin using hundreds of actuators embedded in a microfluidic fabric. An early commercial product was the CyberGrasp from Immersion Corporation. In embodied AI, this is mainly used for dexterous-hand teleoperation: without force feedback, the operator can't tell how hard they're gripping, and objects easily get crushed or dropped; with feedback, the resulting demonstration data is more natural. The tradeoffs are cost, weight, and the hassle of fitting and calibration.

ExampleSenseGlove has released an exoskeleton glove for humanoid robots called the R1, which the company's website says includes active force feedback and vibration feedback, used for dexterous-hand teleoperation and imitation-learning data collection.

Also called

Force-Feedback Glove, Haptic Feedback Glove

Related

Data Glove · Tactile Glove · Teleoperation · Bilateral Teleoperation · Exoskeleton Teleoperation · Dexterous Hand

Sources

Wired glove - Wikipedia
HaptX 官网 (Chinese)
SenseGlove 官网 (Chinese)

As of

2026-09