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Robotic Hand Translates Speech into Sign Language

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the look-ma-no-hands dept.

usermilk writes "Robot educators Keita Matsuo and Hirotsugu Sakai have created a robot hand that translate the spoken word into sign language for the deaf. From the article: 'A microchip in the robot recognizes the 50-character hiragana syllabary and about 10 simple phrases such as "ohayo" (good morning) and sends the information to a central computer, which sends commands to 18 micromotors in the joints of the robotic hand, translating the sound it hears into sign language.'"

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  1. Re:More Useful As Software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    > Would this not be more useful as software, able to render simple 3d hands with low microprocessor overheads, and preferably available for mobile phones and PDAs?

    Why not render the bloody text?? If you can read sign language you probably can read text as well can't you?

  2. Yuor fail it?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    wonO't be shou7ing