  Metarobotics aims to combine next generation wireless communication,
multi-sense immersion, and collective intelligence to provide a pervasive,
itinerant, and non-invasive access and interaction with distant robotized
applications. Industry and society are expected to benefit from these
functionalities. For instance, robot programmers will no longer travel
worldwide to plan and test robot motions, even collaboratively. Instead, they
will have a personalized access to robots and their environments from anywhere,
thus spending more time with family and friends. Students enrolled in robotics
courses will be taught under authentic industrial conditions in real-time. This
paper describes objectives of Metarobotics in society, industry, and
in-between. It identifies and surveys technologies likely to enable their
completion and provides an architecture to put forward the interplay of key
components of Metarobotics. Potentials for self-determination, self-efficacy,
and work-life-flexibility in robotics-related applications in Society 5.0,
Industry 4.0, and Industry 5.0 are outlined.
