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Interactive Robots In Hazardous Settings
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Interactive Robots
John Hopkin’s Computational and Interactive Robotics Laboratory (CIRL) has recently developed an “immersive virtual robotics environment” that allows instructors to work with and interact with a robotic system in real-time through a virtual proxy. The researchers have developed ways in which to manipulate the robot, have it relay information back to them and interact with its environment.
The reason for this technology is to provide a way for industries to operate in either remote or hazardous environments in which it’s unsafe for a human to enter. Researchers found that this new interactive, remote technology will be useful for:
- Letting the operator interact with the robot and change actions or direction based on the information the robot relays.
- It can provide for an enhanced presence and interaction with the robot to better allow it to move around and relay the information it’s gathering.
- Because the robot can withstand these remote or hazardous areas it can save the lives of workers and allow the robot to move objects without human interference.
The user of this technology will also be able to interact with the robots in a “user created representation of geometry” what this means is that the robot will have virtual interaction with other three dimensional objects.
Universe Optics is a manufacturer of standard and custom lens assemblies for scanners, CCTV, CCD/CMOS, medical imaging, surveillance systems, machine vision and night vision systems. They manufacturer lenses that are used in technologies such as the virtual robotics mentioned.