Meet AILA, a robot designed by the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence or DFKI. DFKI is kind of like a European DARPA more focused on building robots for exploration and human assistance instead of military applications. AILA is one of their older robots. The team first revealed it in 2010, but AILA’s adaptable and DFKI has recently been using the robot to show off CAPIO, its new passive exoskeleton system. The CAPIO is the world’s fanciest joystick. It uses 8 different contact points on a complex exoskeleton to manipulate AILA in real time. A person wearing CAPIO moves their arm and AILA moves its arm in time. It’s even equipped with haptic feedback so users get a sense of what AILA is touching.

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