A soft armband that lets you steer a robot while you sprint on a treadmill or bob on rough seas sounds like science fiction. Engineers at the University of California San Diego have now built ...

Traditionally, robot arms have been controlled either by joysticks, buttons, or very carefully programmed routines. However, for [Narongporn Laosrisin’s] homebrew build, they decided to go with ...

Human–robot interaction (HRI) and gesture-based control systems represent a rapidly evolving research field that seeks to bridge the gap between human intuition and robotic precision. This area ...

New research helps robots combine language and gestures to find objects in cluttered spaces, improving how they understand human intent.

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By incorporating insights from canine companions, researchers enable robots to use both language and gesture as inputs to help fetch the right objects.

POMDP, an AI framework inspired by dogs that allows robots to use human gestures and language to find objects with 89% accuracy.