Interactive Robotics in Medicine and Care

The Manus Quantum XR Metagloves by manufacturer Manus are gloves that record finger movements in real time and transmit them digitally. They enable precise replication of the hand in virtual applications and automatically adapt to different hand sizes. The gloves can be used wirelessly, have replaceable batteries and can be flexibly combined with different tracking systems. They can be integrated into common software environments and are used primarily in areas such as virtual reality, animation and research.

Thanks to their motion capture capability, the gloves are also able to transfer their movements to other systems, such as robots with hands, which can then imitate the corresponding movements. Other systems, such as our Kinova Jaco robotic arm, can also be controlled using the glove.

The Manus Gloves are particularly interesting for our research because of their potential integration into medical processes and facilities. They are also very practical as an interface between the various other systems used in our research. At the moment, they are mainly used in the project "Co-Constructive Robot Task Teaching and Learning Utilising Narrative Enabled Episodic Memories (NEEMs) Generated in a Virtual Environment".