We present an interactive robotic platform for teleoperated grasping as an educational tool. With this open- source robot application, we engage children and young adults with robotics. Our teleoperation method uses the Leap Motion optical gesture tracker to simultaneously control each of the four degrees-of- freedom (DOF) of a robotic hand and the six-DOF tool pose of a serial manipulator.

Gesture-Based Teleoperated Grasping for Educational Robotics



**Session Chairs:** Chandra, Shruti (University of Waterloo) and Alhaddad, Ahmad Yaser (Qatar University)

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RO-MAN 2021's theme is trustworthiness and cooperation. We chose this term well before the pandemic put the world on edge and added a new reason for us to question our own personal safety when in the company of others. But what about in the company of social robots? What would cause us to trust, or not trust, them? How do we as researchers create that feeling, that critical component of any relationship? With social robots, it is of course largely in our power to design the physical form, the control code and the interface software to maximize trustworthiness, facilitate cooperation and enhance the quality of human-robot interaction. 

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