Dec 24 2010
Researchers at the Tsukuba University have designed a robot arm, which can be controlled by human gestures.
Gesture-driven Robot Arm
The robot arms assess the motion, direction and position of human hands by means of two built-in cameras and then mimic the gestures instantaneously.
In addition, the cameras of the robot arm can analyze different shapes formed by the human hand like clenching the fist, holding an object and can replicate the same at the rate of 100 times a second.
Researchers are working on the arm for utilizing it to operate upcoming three dimensional displays.
Source: http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp