A Brown University team has developed a robot that can recognize human gestures in multiple environments, despite changes in lighting and depth. The team recorded a video as a proof of concept, demonstrating a robot equipped with continuous tracks, sensors, and a CSEM SwissRanger imaging camera. The robot recognizes its human controller by creating a silhouette that it focuses on as a human cutout, ignoring other environmental input. It follows humans about three feet behind, and moves in reverse when its controller walks towards it.
Wag The Robot? Robot Responds To Human Gestures
ScienceDaily (2009-03-12) -- Researchers have demonstrated how a robot can follow human gestures in a variety of environments -- indoors and outside -- without adjusting for lighting. The achievement is an important step forward in the quest to build fully autonomous robots as partners for human endeavors. ... > read full article
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