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- I thought that some of you may be interested in the address of Advanced
- Robotic Research Ltd where they are developing the Teletact(tm) force
- feedback data glove, amongst other things:-
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- Advanced Robotics Research Ltd
- National Advanced Robotics Research Centre
- University Road,
- SALFORD, M5 4PP,
- United Kingdom.
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- Telephone: 44-61-745-7384
- Fax: 44-61-745-8264
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- Suggested contact: Robert J Stone, Deputy General Manager (Technical)
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- The latest developments of the Teletact technology (co-invented by Robert
- Stone and developed in association with Air Muscle Ltd) include designing a
- teletact glove which can be added to any existing non-force feedback glove
- including Mattel's Power Glove, the Exos Dexterous Hand Master and Virtex's
- CyberGlove. They are also investigating palmar and forearm force feedback
- systems, and are developing software tools for ascribing tactile features to
- virtual objects.
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- Their main area of research currently is the VERDEX (Virtual Enviroment
- Remote Driving EXperiment) project which involves a mobile robot platform
- controlled by a by a remote user without solely using TV cameras. The idea is
- to 'virtually' reconstruct a remote enviroment using a pre existing CAD
- representaion of the area and correlating it with geometric output from non-
- visual sensors. The updated virtual picture would show the current state of
- the enviroment (eg damage, obstacles) and could be explored by the remote
- user. The robot platform is capable of local collision avoidance and when the
- it has been guided to an area which needs more detailed information the user
- can switch the robot to output stereo TV pictures. The computing system for
- VERDEX is based on Division Ltd's "Vision" system.
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