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Smartphone With a Finger! – Augmenting Mobile Devices With a Robotic Limb

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What if mobiles devices had a robotic limb?This research project explores mobile augmentation with a robotic extension./ Marc Teyssier

source/image(PrtSc): Marc Teyssier

MobiLimb is a new shape-changing component with a compact form factor that can be deployed on mobile devices. A finger that can be attached to a smartphone. This gives it a lot of new capabilities.

It is a small 5 DoF serial robotic manipulator that can be easily added to (or removed from) existing mobile devices (smartphone, tablet).

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In the spirit of human augmentation, which aims at overcoming human body limitations by using robotic devices, our approach aims at overcoming mobile device limitations (static, passive, motionless) by using a robotic limb.This project is published at the HCI conference UIST 2018./ Marc Teyssier

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