Use Jedi Mind Tricks To Control Your Next Drone Swarm
Controlling a single drone takes up a considerable amount of concentration and normally involves wearing silly goggles. It only gets harder if you want to control a swarm. Researchers at Skolkovo...
View ArticleHaptic Glove Controls Robot Hand Wirelessly
[Miller] wanted to practice a bit with some wireless modules and wound up creating a robotic hand he could teleoperate with the help of a haptic glove. It lookes highly reproducible, as you can see the...
View ArticlePneumatic Glove For Therapy And Experimentation
Many projects have aimed to replicate the function of the human hand, creating robotic structures that mimic real anatomy. Fewer have attempted to work with human hands directly. SoftGlove is a project...
View ArticleAssistive Gloves Come in Pairs
We have to hand it to this team, their entry for the 2020 Hackaday Prize is a classic pincer maneuver. A team from [The University of Auckland] in New Zealand and [New Dexterity] is designing a couple...
View ArticleVirtual Reality Gloves Aim To Improve Interactivity
Virtual reality is a slow-moving field in some respects. While a lot of focus is put on optical technologies and headsets, there’s a lot more involved when it comes to believably placing a human being...
View ArticleLow Cost Haptic VR Gloves Work With Hacked Steam Games
[Lucas VRTech] has made some significant progress with building force-feedback type haptic gloves for use with Steam VR games. The idea is pretty straightforward: the end of the finger is attached to a...
View ArticleSensor Glove Translates Sign Language
Sign language is a language that uses the position and motion of the hands in place of sounds made by the vocal tract. If one could readily capture those hand positions and movements, one could...
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