Hardware & devices
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In-Air Device Formations for Cross-Device Interaction via Multiple Spatially-Aware Armatures
The Ultimate Flexible Workstation? In-Air Device Formations for Cross-Device Interaction via Multiple Spatially-Aware Armatures (“Air Constellations”) “The Ultimate Flexible Workspace” is a new device concept that uses spatially aware armatures, similar to articulated lamps, to…
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HapticBots: Distributed Encountered-type Haptics for VR with Multiple Shape-changing Mobile Robots
HapticBots introduces a novel encountered-type haptic approach for Virtual Reality (VR) based on multiple tabletop-size shape-changing robots. These robots move on a tabletop and change their height and orientation to haptically render various surfaces and…
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X-Rings: A Hand-mounted 360 Degree Shape Display for Grasping in Virtual Reality [UIST 2021]
X-Rings is a novel hand-mounted 360-degree shape display for Virtual Reality that renders objects in 3D and responds to user-applied touch and grasping force. Designed as a modular stack of motor-driven expandable rings (5.7-7.7 cm…
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Precision agriculture uses computer science to make farms more efficient and reduce climate change
On an 8,000-acre family farm in Eastern Washington, Microsoft Research helps deploy precision agriculture, putting AI and powerful data analysis tools in the hands of an eighth-generation farmer, enabling him to adapt to climate extremes…
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Applied Robotics Research Library – Index Repository
This library is a collection of GitHub repositories containing software applications, data sets, and hardware reference designs to support research and education in the fields of service-robotics. The term service-robotics refers to the expectation that the robots can…