There was a huge amount of teleoperation research done for the DARPA robotics challenge and there still is for things like servicing satellites. Movable points

There was a huge amount of teleoperation research done for the DARPA robotics challenge and there still is for things like servicing satellites. Movable points of view and haptic feedback are not enough to solve teleoperation. A big problem with teleoperation is lag and packet loss. A majority of the applications where teleoperation makes sense involve a great distance between the operator and the robot, situations where these two factors become problematic. While a movable view would be useful, the lag between headset motion and camera motion could be nauseating. In the DARPA robotics challenge, competitors were able to create movable views with lag by 3d scanning the environment and streaming the 3d scans. Haptics can greatly degrade with lag. There have been some approaches to predict what the operator is going to do or predict that a collision is going to occur and prevent such things, but they have not been able to decrease the time it takes to complete a task[0]. It is worth noting though that remote surgery has been somewhat successful over high bandwidth communication links. One constraining factor for teleoperation research is that there aren't many applications where it makes sense to do so. The problem is that robots and haptic gear are currently expensive which limits the applications. You need an application where humans cannot go or the labor the operator is doing is more valuable than the cost of transporting the operator there and the robot. Applications where humans can't go are fairly niche. In addition, applications like working inside a non-damaged nuclear reactor or subsea operations tend to involve equipment that has been designed to be serviced by the simplest of teleoperated robots. In the case of nuclear reactors, mechanical and hydraulic remote manipulators are suitable for most operations. Very valuable tasks like robot surgery are rarely done remotely, partially because of how expensive surgical robots are. We could put surgical robots in remote locations, but remote locations have less patients to service, so it's hard to justify the cost of putting robots in a bunch of remote locations versus moving the patients to the hospitals. [0]https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7399376/ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7399376/ [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_surgery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_surgery