![]() A little more than a year ago I was Bezos’ straight man in a fireside chat at a space conference, so today he recognized me as he strode by and reached out his hand. It didn’t feel like a real handshake, because there was no skin-on-skin sensation.īezos’ grip is a lot warmer, which I know from experience. It’s a traditional trick for onlookers to shake hands with the robot, and that’s exactly what I did when I stopped by the exhibit earlier in the day. There are even air-filled tubes running all the way into fingertip pads, so that the forces encountered by the robotic fingers are passed along to the operator’s gloves as objects are grasped. The system sets the robotic arms, hands and fingers moving in parallel. The operator wears gloves that pick up the movements of the arms, hands and fingers with magnetic sensors. The arm system is meant to be one of the platforms for the ANA Avatar XPRIZE, a competition for teams working on telepresence tools. ![]() After visiting a smart home exhibit set up to show off what Amazon and iRobot are doing with connected devices, Bezos walked over to the demonstration area set aside for Seattle-based startup HaptX and its partners in the robotic arm project, Shadow Robot Company and SynTouch.
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