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Body Gestures To Power Machines

  • MIT News, Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:07 PM

For those who have doubts that voice and gesture commands will someday augment or replace the need to type keywords into a search box to query information -- something we will talk about at the MediaPost Search Insider Summit in April -- an MIT research group of students explain how gestures combined with technology will guide robot planes used for routine air missions. A more simple method for gesture search can be found in Microsoft Kinect, but this example demonstrates the scope of possibilities and that conducting a search through gestures can become common much more easily. 

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