A human augmentation device design review: supernumerary robotic limbs

Z Liao, B Chen, T Chang, Q Zheng, K Liu… - Industrial Robot: the …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Supernumerary robotic limbs (SRLs) are a new type of wearable robot, which
improve the user's operating and perceive the user's environment by extra robotic limbs …

Wearable Extra Robotic Limbs: A Systematic Review of Current Progress and Future Prospects

HB Li, Z Li, L He, XR Guan - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2023 - Springer
Wearable robots have obtained increasing research attention for the potential to provide the
wearer with greater strength, higher extensibility, and handleability. Wearable extra robotic …

I need a third arm! eliciting body-based interactions with a wearable robotic arm

M Muehlhaus, M Koelle, A Saberpour… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Wearable robotic arms (WRA) open up a unique interaction space that closely integrates the
user's body with an embodied robotic collaborator. This space affords diverse interaction …

Xs: Interactive Scissor Mechanisms as Portable and Customizable Shape-Changing Interfaces

V Xu, K Nakagaki - … of the Seventeenth International Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Scissor mechanisms are commonly used extension mechanisms for developing lifts, robotic
grippers, and mechanical shape-changing toys. The scissor mechanism has several unique …

TOMURA: A Mountable Hand-Shaped Interface for Versatile Interactions

S Yoshida, T Sasaki, Z Kashino, M Inami - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We introduce TOMURA, a mountable hand-shaped interface for conducting a wide range of
interactions by leveraging the versatility of the human hand. TOMURA can be mounted in …

UX Study for Origami-Inspired Foldable Robotic Mechanisms

M Kusunoki, H Xie - Proceedings of the Asian HCI Symposium 2023, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Origami-inspired robotic mechanisms have unique advantages due to their flexibility,
softness, and easy fabrication, and their great potential to democratize the wearable …

Scalable and Foldable Origami-Inspired Supernumerary Robotic Limbs for Daily Tasks

M Kusunoki, LV Nguyen, HR Tsai, H Xie - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes scalable and foldable origami-inspired supernumerary robotic limbs
that incorporate a continuous robotic mechanism to support activities of daily living and …

Exploring Superpower Design Through Wi-Fi Twinge

S Liu, N Semertzidis, GA Lee, FF Mueller… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Technology-facilitated “superpowers” are a popular topic in human-computer interaction,
providing people with the experience of having superhero-like fantastic abilities. However …

Design and Development of Wearable Flexible Mechanical Arm Based on Iterative Learning Control*

Z Cui, L Xie, Z Chen, Y Tang, L Kou… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the concept of" wearable" and" flexible" is combined to design and develop a
wearable flexible robot arm, which can realize multi-person collaboration and human …

Design of a Supernumerary Robotic Limb Based on Hybrid Control of Motion Imagination and Object Detection

Z Tang, H Wang, Z Cui, J Ding… - Design Studies and …, 2024 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Upper limb moto disorders are the main symptoms of stroke patients. Based on deep
learning algorithms and object detection technology, we developed a brain-controlled …