The new “Spider Dress” is programmed to ward off threatening social behavior with its robotic limbs. It will premiere at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 6, “The dress provides an extension of the wearers intuition,” Wipprecht told me over email. “It uses proximity sensors as well as a respiration sensor to both define and protect the personal space of the wearer.” “Approach the wearer too aggressively and the mechanical limbs move up to an attack position,” she continued. “Approach the system under calmer circumstance and the dress just might beckon you to come closer with smooth, suggestive gestures.” The sleek bodice of the dress was 3D printed in a selective laser sintering technique, and is adorned with 20 embedded proximity sensors and wireless bio-signals connected to an Intel Edison platform. This allows the system to gage the behavior of people surrounding the wearer within a radius of about seven meters, and also to monitor the wearer’s internal stress level.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:17:29 +0000
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