Remotely Operated Animatronic Arm

In today’s modern world, we still witness numerous scenarios where labor-intensive activities are repetitive, require high precision and have no room of human error, or a partially paralyzed patient or disabled person who is need of assistance. These activities need to be replaced by efficient systems that automate these jobs, reduce errors, reduce time consuming and aid humans. However, most of these automatic systems are complex and bulky in nature. Hence these cannot be installed at homes and be used by common people for their everyday lives. Bearing this problem in mind, we have developed an animatronic arm that is designed to perform the basic tasks that we generally perform with our hands like holding, picking, carrying objects with the help of gestures. Apart from making the task easier, it is quite simple and portable that could be placed at different locations to perform the desired task, which might be difficult or risky for humans to do the same. Our model helps people to remotely control an animatronic arm through flex sensors placed on their fingers using a glove. It picks the angular displacement of the finger and maps it to a specific reading which results in a similar action by the arm.