Have Amana Saraji four hands. The two of them hug him. Limbs covering Saraji, long, lanky and robotic, and they are connected to the backpack he’s wearing. Arms are controlled remotely by another person who is wearing the Oculus Rift VR headset, and who sees the world from the point of view Sarici (camera fixed on the backpack, provide a good overview), and uses hand controllers to control the connected hands.
After cuddling robotic hand release Saraji and right arm gives him a high five.
Saraji — associate Professor school of media design, Keio University in Tokyo, guiding the development of these “hands from the backpack” called Fusion and wants to know how people could work together, driving the body of another person. Although some of the steps shown in the video Saraji, look silly, this device can be useful for physical therapy and remote coaching people.
That is capable of robotic manipulators?
In addition to hugs and Patong operator robotic arms can lift things or move my hands near the person who wears a backpack. Mechanical hands can be removed and replaced with straps that tied the limbs of the carrier of the backpack, if you want to truly control his hands. A device that Sariji created with colleagues from Keio University and Tokyo University, will show at the conference on computer graphics and technological cooperation Siggraph in Vancouver in August.
Attempts to create additional legs that can be worn, made repeatedly, this case is not accidental, if I may say so: Saraji and other Fusion researchers had previously developed a portable extremity called MetaLimbs. The media is controlled by their feet.
Limbs that are managed by someone else- that is, someone in another room or another country is another. Saridi says he wants to see what would happen if somebody else in some sense will “dive” into your body and take control.
The backpack is the PC, relaying data wirelessly between the robot limbs and a media person controlling the limb in virtual reality. PC also connects to the microcontroller, which makes it clear how to place robotic manipulators, and how much torque to apply to joints.
Robot hands, each of which has seven joints protrude from the backpack, along with a kind of head. In the head two cameras that show the remote operator in real time all that he sees the bearer of the backpack. When the operator moves the head in VR, sensors track the movement and cause the head to move in response (it can turn left or right, tilt up and down, sway from side to side).
A wearable system equipped with a battery that lasts only half an hour. The installation is quite heavy — about 10 pounds. Of course, it is just a prototype.
The various buttons on the controllers, Oculus Rift activate various functions of the finger: the operator can move the pinky, ring and middle finger simultaneously at the touch of a button, while the thumb and fingers have their own controls.
Saraji plans to turn your project into a real product with Tokyo business accelerator.
This guy has four arms. The two of them operated by someone else
Ilya Hel