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Sony patents robot control that feels like moving your own muscles

Sony describes a system where sensors track how your muscles stretch and shrink to control a remote robot. The robot sends back data on its movement, which the system uses to calculate how your muscles should feel, creating a two-way feedback loop.

Why it mattersThis could make operating distant machines feel more natural, allowing users to sense resistance or movement without holding heavy controllers.

In the filing’s own words

There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that enable realization of haptic feedback that does not hinder the movement of an operator. The information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires change information indicating a change in physical quantity related to an operation target corresponding to extension or contraction of a muscle of a site in a body of a user, and a calculation unit that calculates an extension/contraction amount corresponding to the change in physical quantity on the basis of the change information.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a central processing unit (CPU) configured to: acquire a first extension/contraction amount of a muscle of a site in a body of a user from a plurality of sensors; control a motion of an operation target based on the acquired first extension/contraction amount of the muscle of the user, wherein the operation target is a remote-operated robot at a remote location from the user: acquire change information indicating a change in a physical quantity associated with the remote-operated robot, wherein the change information corresponds to at least one of an extension or a contraction of the muscle of the site in the body of the user; and calculate a second extension/contraction amount of the muscle corresponding to the change in the physical quantity associated with the remote-operated robot, based on the acquired change information of the remote-operated robot.

Facts

Company
Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
Official title
Information processing apparatus and information processing method
Patent number
US12724486B2
Application number
18572407
Filed
Feb 10, 2022
Granted
Sep 1, 2026
Inventors
1
Claims
18

Classified under

G06F 3/016 Physics & computingB25J 13/087 Operations & transportG06F 3/011 Physics & computing
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