What do orchestra conductors, wizards, and Leap controller users have in common? They all control things by just waving their hands. [Saddam] must have wanted the same effect, so he created a robot ...

The Leap Motion controller is a rather impressive little sensor bar that is capable of generating a massive 3D point cloud and recognizing hands and fingers to allow for gesture control based ...

Arduino enthusiasts may be interested in a new gesture controlled Arduino door lock which has been created by Adham Negm and uses an Arduino Uno together with a servo motor to slide the bolt back and ...

System enables people to correct robot mistakes on multi-choice problems. Getting robots to do things isn't easy: usually scientists have to either explicitly program them or get them to understand ...

Through a clinical collaboration between Caltech, Keck Medicine of USC and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, a 34-year-old paralyzed man is the first person in the world to have a ...

Instructables user TannerTech has used a little Arduino technology to add gesture controls to his rolling backpack enabling the device to be manoeuvred in a much more elegant way. The Robo-backpack ...

Last year, we heard about an MIT-designed system that detects when someone has observed a robot making a mistake, and that stops the robot as a result. A new addition now allows that person to let the ...

Fighting underground: It is the most primitive, close combat a fighter may ever face. New technologies being developed by the United States and its partners seek to tackle age-old challenges that ...