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Humans, Robots and Virtual Worlds in the Tactile Internet

  • 1st Edition - February 17, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Frank H. P. Fitzek, Shu-Chen Li, Stefanie Speidel, Thorsten Strufe, Toktam Mahmoodi, Martin Reisslein
  • Language: English

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Description

Humans, Robots and Virtual Worlds in the Tactile Internet is a groundbreaking, comprehensive guide to this innovative communication platform that merges the physical and digital worlds, transforming how we experience the Metaverse and interact with robots and other cyber-physical systems. From exploring real-world applications in healthcare, industry, education, and beyond, to delving into the cutting-edge components, sensors, and communication systems that underpin this transformation, this book offers a multidisciplinary view of the Tactile Internet revolution.

This is an essential read for academic researchers, students, industry professionals, and R&D engineers seeking a comprehensive, up-to-date, and forward looking approach to understanding the Tactile Internet’s intersection with the Metaverse, together with its far reaching implications.

Key features

  • Provides a visionary, forward-looking perspective on the Tactile Internet’s role in the Metaverse’s evolution
  • Includes an interdisciplinary collaboration with a diverse group of experts spanning various disciplines
  • Presents advancements in 6G Technology, including breakthrough technologies that have not been seen in any wireless generation before
  • Covers use cases of the Tactile Internet, including Theranostics, Care, and Robot-Assisted-Surgery
  • Discusses human centred design, with a strong emphasis on designing Tactile Internet Systems that respect human senses, individuality, and the quality of human experience

Readership

Academic researchers in engineering, computer science, robotics, human-computer interaction and telecommunications, industry professionals working in industries related to telecommunications, robotics, augmented and virtual reality, wearables and human-computer interaction, engineers and technologists looking to implement Tactile Internet technologies, policy makers and educators, entrepreneurs and innovators

Table of contents

Part 1 Overview and Societal Impact

1. Tactile internet to unify the Metaverse and Robotics

Part 2. Tactile Internet Use cases

2. Theranostics and Care

3. Robot-Assisted Surgery

4. Industry and Craft

5. Edutainment

6. Domestic Settings

7. Space

Part 3. Components

8. Human Performance Skills

9. Peripherals

10. Network of Networks

11. Robotics

12. Metaverse

Part 4. Methods

13. Human-Machine Interface and Anticipatory Interaction

14. Human Learning

15. Artificial intelligence

16. Information Theory

17. Trustworthy Algorithms

Part 5. Basics

18. Human Senses and Perception

19. Electronics

20. Smart Materials, Sensors and Actuators

21. Communication

22. Computing

Part 6. MICS

23. Ethical and Legal Implications

24. Outreach and Societal impact

25. Standardization

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 17, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

FF

Frank H. P. Fitzek

Frank H. P. Fitzek is a Professor and head of the “Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks” at TU Dresden coordinating the 5G Lab Germany. He is the spokesman of the DFG Cluster of Excellence “Center for Tactile Internet” (CeTI). He received his diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology – Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) – Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Berlin, Germany in 2002 and became Adjunct Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy in the same year. In 2003 he joined Aalborg University as Professor .
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Head of the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

SL

Shu-Chen Li

Shu-Chen Li obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma, USA (1994) and completed her postdoctoral training at the McGill University in Montréal, Canada (1995), prior to her 17-year research career at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. After being a senior research scientist and the principal investigator of the Neuromodulation of Lifespan Cognition Project at the MPI, she took up a full professorship as the chair of Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at TU Dresden (Technische Universität Dresden) in September 2012. She serves on the editorial boards of various journals (e.g., Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews) and grant review panels
Affiliations and expertise
Chair of Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

SS

Stefanie Speidel

Stefanie Speidel is a full professor for “Translational Surgical Oncology” at the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Dresden since 2017. She received her PhD (Dr.-Ing.) from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with distinction in 2009 in the context of the research training group “Intelligent Surgery” (KIT, University of Heidelberg, DKFZ) and had a junior research group “Computer-Assisted Surgery” from 2012 – 2016 at KIT. Her current research interests include image- and robotic-guided surgery in the context of the future operating room. She has been (co)-authoring more than 100 publications and regularly organizes workshops and challenges including the Endoscopic Vision Challenge@MICCAI as well as the Surgical Data Science workshop. She is member of several Program Committees of international conferences, such as MICCAI, CARS, SPIE Medical Imaging and has been general chair and program chair for a number of international events including IPCAI and MICCAI conference. She has been principal investigator on a number of research grants and received several best paper awards.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor for “Translational Surgical Oncology, National Center for Tumour Diseases, Dresden, Germany

TS

Thorsten Strufe

Thorsten Strufe is professor for Privacy and IT-Security at Technische Universität Dresden, vice speaker of the German Cluster of Excellence on Tactile Internet with human-in-the-loop CeTI, PI of the Joint Research Centre HAEC, PI of the Graduate School "RoSI", and PI of the 5G-Lab Germany. His research interests lie in the areas of large scale distributed systems and social networking services, with an emphasis on privacy and resilience. Recently, he has focused on studying user behavior and security in online social networks and possibilities to provide privacy-preserving and secure social networking services, partially through decentralization. One of the challenges driving him is the question, how competitive online and mobile services can be created without comprehensive collection of personal information, which hence respect the privacy of their users. He was appointed professor for for Peer-to-Peer networks at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, from 2009 to 2014, and visiting professor for Dependable Distributed Systems at University of Mannheim, Germany, throughout 2011.
Affiliations and expertise
Chair of Privacy and Security, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

TM

Toktam Mahmoodi

Toktam Mahmoodi is a Professor of communication Engineering and Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research (CTR) in Department of Engineering at King’s College London. Her research focuses on the areas of mobile and cloud networking, and includes network intelligence, edge learning and networking, ultra-low latency networking, and network modelling and optimization. She also works on applications of mobile communications in the healthcare, smart cities, emergency services, industrial networks, and intelligent transportation.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of communication Engineering and Director, Centre for Telecommunications Research (CTR), Department of Engineering, Kings College London, UK

MR

Martin Reisslein

Martin Reisslein is a Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, and an external associated investigator with the Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI), Technische Universit\"{a}t Dresden, Germany. He received the Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. He currently serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, the IEEE Transactions on Education, and IEEE Access, as well as Computer Networks (Elsevier). He is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials and a Co-Editor-in-Chief of Optical Switching and Networking (Elsevier). He chaired the steering committee of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia from 2017-2019 and was an Associate Editor of the IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking from 2009-2013. He received the IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2008, a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2015, as well as a DRESDEN Senior Fellowship in 2016 and in 2019.
Affiliations and expertise
Arizona State University, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Tempe, USA

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