Tokyo University engineer Tsuyoshi Horo has developed an alternative system for controlling robots, using a set of hand and body gestures.

A circular array of cameras are used to track and detect body movement within a controlled environment, these movements are then translated into actions for the robot.

The cameras are used to create a real-time, 3D, volumetric model of objects or people inside the circle of cameras, allowing for precise tracking of movements. These are then converted into a psychedelic stack of virtual cubes which are read and processed as data. Viewed movement allows a user to control something like the direction of a robot simply by pointing which way they’d like it to go.