Breaking the lab´s walls. Tele-laboratories at the University of Pisa

In this paper we describe work being done at our Department to make the Robotics laboratory accessible to students and colleagues, to execute and watch real-time experiments at any time and from anywhere. We describe few different installations, and highlight the underlying philosophy, which is aimed at enlarging the lab in all the dimensions of space, time, and available resources, through the use of Internet technologies.