Aircraft carrier crews already use a set of hand gestures and body positions to guide pilots around the deck. But with an increase in unmanned planes, what if the crew could use those same gestures to ...

Inspired by the control system for the AMP suits in the movie Avatar, [Feelpavan] built this gesture controlled robotic hand. So far there is functionality for the wrists to rotate and bend, as well ...

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 ...

There are several mechanical contraptions out there that use gesture-control to do what they do. But, just as with anything else, there's always room for some sort of improvement. This new mechanical ...

2010 may go down in history as the year of gesture recognition. We've seen it in TVs, we have it in our video games (thanks, Kinect!), and now we have it in our robots. The Biological Cybernetics Lab ...

If you've ever wanted to craft a robot that you can control with your hands, you now have a chance of making it a reality: Ziro has started a crowdfunding campaign for its gesture-controlled robot kit ...

Microsoft’s Kinect is being hacked left, right and center, with all sorts of exciting uses in its future. But Willow Garage, purveyor of research humanoid robots, has created the best mashup yet: ...