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Fig. 1 Exoskeletons have segments and joints that correspond to some extend to
those of the human body. Open Access article with unrestricted use permission
(Nilsson et al., 2014).

order to accomplish a particular task. Thus, exoskeletons are currently under
development for enhancement of human motor performance in the military
(Zoss et al., 2006), and for industrial applications (de Looze et al., 2015).

1.2.2 Telemanipulation
This application comprises the set of technologies that enable tasks to be exe-
cuted remotely. A robotic exoskeleton acts as a master device in a
teleoperation system. In bilateral control mode, it allows the operator to
control a remote robotic arm (slave). Interaction forces between the remote
robot arm and its environment are fed back to the master and applied by the
exoskeleton to the human arm.