The device is in the form of an armband and uses brain signaling to make gestures
Although similar inventions already exist, this invention has a lower power budget
In the near future, making prosthetic hand movements won’t necessarily require any form of physical effort – all it would take is sending signals from the brain, triggered by thoughts.
Engineers at the University of California (UC) collaborated to develop a device that uses electrical signals to make hand signals. This system could be used to control prosthetics or interact with almost any type of electronic device.
A paper with the full description of the device was published recently in the journal
This device can recognise hand gestures using wearable biosensors
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December 30, 2020 11:07 IST
The algorithm has been taught to recognise 21 unique hand gestures, including thumbs-up, fist, flat hand, holding up individual fingers and counting numbers.
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The algorithm has been taught to recognise 21 unique hand gestures, including thumbs-up, fist, flat hand, holding up individual fingers and counting numbers.
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A new device uses wearable biosensors and artificial intelligence (AI) to recognise hand gestures from electrical signals in the forearm.
New Device Detects Which Hand Gesture You Want to Make
Imagine typing on a computer without a keyboard, playing a video game without a controller or driving a car without a wheel.
That’s one of the goals of a new device developed by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, that can recognize hand gestures based on electrical signals detected in the forearm. The system, which couples wearable biosensors with artificial intelligence (AI), could one day be used to control prosthetics or to interact with almost any type of electronic device.
“Prosthetics are one important application of this technology, but besides that, it also offers a very intuitive way of communicating with computers.” said Ali Moin, who helped design the device as a doctoral student in UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. “Reading hand gestures is one way of improving human-computer inter
A new device can recognize hand gestures based on electrical signals it detects in the forearm.
Imagine typing on a computer without a keyboard, playing a video game without a controller, or driving a car without a wheel. That’s the goal researchers envision for the system, which couples wearable biosensors with artificial intelligence (AI) and could one day control prosthetics or to interact with almost any type of electronic device.
“Prosthetics are one important application of this technology, but besides that, it also offers a very intuitive way of communicating with computers.” says Ali Moin, who helped design the device as a doctoral student in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley. Moin is co-first author of the study in
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