A soft armband that lets you steer a robot while you sprint on a treadmill or bob on rough seas sounds like science fiction. Engineers at the University of California San Diego have now built ...

Traditionally, robot arms have been controlled either by joysticks, buttons, or very carefully programmed routines. However, for [Narongporn Laosrisin’s] homebrew build, they decided to go with ...

A soft patch on the arm could soon let you steer robots with simple hand movements, even while your whole body is in motion. That is the promise of a new wearable system from engineers at the ...

A high-tech wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with such dexterity that it can play the piano.

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology here have developed a wearable device that can control robotic ...