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: ...

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 ...

A new wearable system can read your gestures so accurately that you can control a robot while sprinting, bouncing in a car, or drifting through choppy ocean waves. And for the first time, the motion ...