[Ray Kampmeier] just finished writing some code to allow him to control his robotic arm using force-sensitive hand gestures! He calls it the Robo Marionette. He’s using a MeArm 4 DOF robotic arm ...

I had the chance to check out the prototype of a reengineered robot vacuum called Matic. It doesn't look like any other robot ...

Humans use hand gestures during conversation, but until now, it wasn’t clear whether listeners actively use these gestures to anticipate speech.

A drop chamber is designed to validate Microsoft’s simulation data against the reality of dropping a device on concrete ...

In face-to-face conversations, speakers use hand movements to signal meaning. But do listeners actually use these gestures to predict what someone might say next? In a study using virtual avatars, ...

Combining two different kinds of signals could help engineers build prosthetic limbs that better reproduce natural movements, ...

In a clinic in England, a teenage girl watched her bionic hand crawl across a table. Detached from her own arm, it was moving ...

Graduate student Peyton Young works with a robotic arm controlled by electromyography (EMG ... a series of able-bodied volunteers in the lab who performed a series of arm gestures with while ...

As you navigate through your daily routine, whether it's grabbing a meal at a restaurant, visiting a healthcare center or checking into a hotel, you might soon encounter a new kind of robot at ...

Do Ho Suh, whose major survey exhibition in London opens this week, discusses the power of architecture and finding ...

We need it to be GPU-accelerated so that these virtual worlds could live in super-linear time [to] train these models incredibly fast,” Huang says. To work reliably around the home or outside ...