Virtual and remote labs have been around for almost twenty years and while they have been constantly gaining popularity since their appearance, there are still many people in the control education community who either do not know many details about them or do not know them at all. What are their benefits? Which examples of virtual and remote labs for control education can be found in the Internet and how spread and popular are they? What are the current trends and issues in the implementation and deployment of these tools? And the future ones? These and others are some of the questions we answer in this paper, trying to bring the attention of the control education community to these tools which, we believe, are meant to have an increasing importance and relevance for the 21st century students.

Este es el manuscrito aceptado del artículo. La versión registrada fue publicada por primera vez en Annual Reviews in Control, Volume 42, 2016, Pages 1-10, ISSN 1367-5788, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arcontrol.2016.08.001. This is the accepted manuscript of the article. The registered version was first published in Annual Reviews in Control, Volume 42, 2016, Pages 1-10, ISSN 1367-5788, and is available online from the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arcontrol.2016.08.001.

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