Robotic arm found to work too easily From: CNET News - 09/24/2010 By: Elizabeth Armstrong Moore A computer program created at the University of Central Florida that directs a robotic arm to grab objects with just one touch was deemed by many participants in a pilot study to be "too easy" to use - a finding the designers had not anticipated. The computer program directs the robotic arm into action based on voice command, touch screen, computer mouse, or joystick. Sensors mounted on the arm detect an object and relay spacial data about it to the computer, which calculates how the arm should move to retrieve the object. Read the entire article at: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-20017573-247.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 Links: Robotic Arm's Big Flaw: Patients Say It's 'Too Easy' http://news.ucf.edu/UCFnews/index?page=article&id=0024004107a42ec8a01289848d7ab07cd1 (video) http://newsguide.us/education/science/Robotic-arm-s-big-flaw-Patients-say-it-s-too-easy/ Robotic Arm Designed to Make Quadriplegics Lives Easier is Actually "Too Easy," Testers Say (video) http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-09/robotic-arm-designed-help-quadriplegics-too-easy-use-testers-say?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter Robotic Arm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaOcOdE57Ww Aman Behal http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/25932.php?from=169387