LONDON- Scientists at the Imperial College London have innovated a computer software which makes a person to be able to eat, drink and paint a picture at a time.
Yes, you read it perfectly correctly. Now human beings are able to do three different things by two hands, because there is an extra robotic arm to paint the picture which can be controlled by the person through just his movement of eyes.
The researchers say the technology demonstrates a potential use for robots to help people extend their range of abilities and do more than one task at a time.
At the college’s Brain and Behavior Lab, engineers have taken a robotic arm and devised a system for it to be used as an extension of the human body. Instead of following a set of computer commands, the robot arm is guided by a tracker that follows the direction of the eyes, with an algorithm translating the path of the user’s gaze into commands that control the robotic arm.
On Wednesday (October 14), in what the team says was quite possibly a world first, a researcher used the technology to paint a picture while simultaneously eating a croissant and drinking coffee. Post graduate student Sabine Dziemian says the intuitive computer program meant that even when her hands were otherwise occupied she could still accurately control the robotic arm.
Though the painting created by this hand is basic i.e. simple but it has opened the door for more work on this issue. It has implied that technology can be implemented into everyday life to pace the human work by giving them literally an extra hand.
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