Gesture-Based Teleoperated Grasping for Educational Robotics

We present an interactive robotic platform for teleoperated grasping as an educational tool. With this open-source robot application, we engage children and young adults with robotics and make computer science education more vivid. Our teleoperation method uses the Leap Motion optical gesture tracker to simultaneously control each of the four degrees-of-freedom (DOF) of a robotic hand and the six-...