Humanoids Implementation Using Sixth Sense

Abstract

In the age of automating even the trivial works, we have come across a time where the very nature of human interaction can be revolutionized. All of us visualize a future depicted in the Will Smith starrer i Robot where artificial intelligence reaches its pinnacle. Taking a step towards the visualization, this paper proposes combining two technologies viz., Sixth Sense and Robotics to achieve a more efficient and versatile humanoid. Sixth Sense is a wearable gesture interface developed by Pranav Mistry. This integrates the real and the digital world. Simple devices like cameras, mouse sensors etc are used to create an interface and digitalize the world around us. Humanoids are robots which resemble human body in appearance and can imitate the movements of the same. They rely on human-like senses such as vision, hearing and touch along with an extra ability to be more efficient than humans. If we combine Sixth Sense technology's ability to map human physical movements onto a digital interface (say computer) and the ability of Robotics to realize digital data into physical world, a class of human driven robots can be achieved which can imitate every movement of a human. The obvious application of this proposal is in defense and rescue operations. Even the lifting of heavy objects can be made easy. Real life operations such as one in a volatile mine can be realized easily. Also, it can be extended to high profile operations such as space exploration. In conclusion, this class of robots can reach places and efficiency levels which humans can never do owing physical constraints.