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 wi… ...

MIT is making strides in controlling robots using brainwaves and hand gestures. This could mean robots will one day need nothing more than a thought from a human operator to control them.

But Willow Garage, purveyor of research humanoid robots, has created the best mashup yet: Kinect, a robot, and gesture control.

Gesture-based system are usually attached to video game consoles like the Microsoft Kinect or your computer like the Leap Motion. Google's ATAP team figured that the smaller form factor of the ...

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… ...

Other gesture controlled robots of note include using two Leap motion controllers to control some industrial robot arms — for robotic surgery! And of course there’s also advanced robotic arm ...

An advanced gesture-sensitive sensor system, and a robot–combined into one project. Check out the video to see what Willow Garage has achieved in the small period of time since Kinect hit the ...

Google will start shipping development kits for its Project Soli wireless gesture recognition technology later this year.