Controlling a military robot these days means fiddling with joysticks or spinning hockey puck-esque discs. DARPA-funded researchers have come up with a simpler interface: your head.
The "Head-Aimed Remote Viewer," or HARV, let’s you see exactly what the ‘bot is seeing. Move your skull one way, and the robot’s camera looks in that direction, too. The gadget’s developers at Chatten Associates figure they can boost a bot-driver’s performance by as much as 400%, when a HARV is strapped on.
And, of course, it frees up the hands for more important jobs on the battlefield.
(Way to roll: Giz)
