Now this robot hand is designed with a modest mission. It reads the spoken word and easily translates it into sign language to be further read by the deaf. A brainchild of Robot educators Keita Matsuo and Hirotsugu Sakai the robot hand is equipped with a microchip that identifies the 50-character hiragana syllabary and almost 10 simple phrases such as “ohayo” and transfers the information to a central computer and than into 18 micromotors fitted in the joints of the robotic hand, giving out the translated sign language.
Via: Slashdot
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