Robots

Technology Enables Control of Robots from Great Distances

Scientists in Russia wearing an exoskeleton succeeded in controling a distant connected robot in Germany, within the fraemwork of a project called CAPIO with numerous applications.

The project is the work of DFKI, a German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, resembling the US DARPA, focusing on building robots for carrying out applications and tasks that can assist humans.

AILA, one of its robots, is controllable using CAPIO, an eight-contact exoskeleton system that wearers can use to move AILA in real time from a great distance.

“The idea behind the project was to combine AI software approaches like machine learning and robotics-based hardware design to achieve an exoskeleton that understands the user’s intentions in terms of arm movements, and supports those intentions seamlessly,” Professor Dr. Frank Kirchner, a roboticist, told Digital Trends.