Japanese Nurse Robot Twendy-One

clipped from www.medgadget.com Would You Trust Your Patients to Twendy-One? PTC (The Product Development Company® of Needham, Massachusetts) is reporting that one of its software products has been selected by Waseda University's Sugano Laboratory as "the main engineering tool for the development of a human-symbiotic robot." clipped from twendyone.com HISTORY WENDY (Waseda Engineering Designed sYmbiont) TWENDY-ONE is an advanced version of the WENDY robot (Waseda Engineering Designed　sYmbiont) which was developed in 1999 in Sugano Laboratory, Egg breaking clipped from twendyone.com CONCEPT TWENDY-ONE When TWENDY-ONE manipulates an object with various shape, it is easy for TWENDY-ONE to adapt to the object by passivity to absorb external force generated by the positioning deviation. In the same way, TWENDY-ONE can adapt to human motion and hold a human. As a result, TWENDY-ONE can manipulate an object dexterously as well as support a human. clipped from twendyone.com DEMO clipped from www.youtube.com

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The XTR3D Human Machine Interface

XTR3D developed software that lets users interact with computers and gaming consoles using 3D human motions. XTR3D technology is real-time software analyzes 3D human motions using only one simple web cam, with out any additional accessories. It will allow users to play games and interact in virtual worlds using natural human motions instead of keyboards, mouses and joysticks.
XTR3D software also runs on mobile devices and may be ported to any embedded platform.

A short demo

A longer demo and lecture by the CEO of XTR3D

Extreme Reality

related: LinkNotes: Futuristic User Interfaces