A soft armband that lets you steer a robot while you sprint on a treadmill or bob on rough seas sounds like science fiction.

Imagine being able to control a robot just by moving your arm, even if you’re running, riding in a car or being bounced around by ocean waves. Engineers at the University of California San Diego have ...

Developed at the University of California San Diego, the system pairs soft, stretchable sensors with a deep-learning engine that cleans noisy data in real time, yielding a reliable interface that ...

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 ...

A new wearable system uses stretchable electronics and artificial intelligence to interpret human gestures with high accuracy even in chaotic, high-motion environments.

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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 ...

Senior software engineer David Alfonso of Boston-based Pison Technology doesn’t resemble the sorceror’s apprentice from the old Walt Disney cartoon “Fantasia.” But with a wave of his hand, he seemed ...