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This week, now we have a particular video version of The Robot Report podcast. This is the video feed from our current interview with Tatum Robotics founder and CEO, Samantha Johnson. The video options American Sign Language (ASL) translation in order that hearing-impaired people can even benefit from the content material.
Tatum Robotics is constructing a robotic gadget formed like a human hand and arm, that may mimic a human translator for deafblind people. Currently, deafblind people talk by touching the hand of their translator. The human translator makes use of finger spelling and ASL indicators to speak.
Tatum Robotics is constructing a robotic analog to the human hand, designed to duplicate the interplay between a translator and a deafblind person. Ultimately, Tatum Robotics desires to open up the world of ebooks for consumption by deafblind people. This shall be adopted by distant communication (i.e. over the net) between each listening to people and deafblind people, and even between two deafblind people.
As Samantha Johnson discusses within the video, till now, deafblind people are sometimes remoted and bored for lengthy durations of time, with no potential to speak with out a translator.
An early prototype of the Tatum Robotics communication robotic for deafblind people. | Credit: Tatum Robotics
We need to thank the ASL translators on this undertaking: Tymber Marsh and Sean Havas for his or her wonderful translation expertise. Tatum Robotics is at present recruiting further ASL signers to contribute their distinctive ASL methods to the robotic design. If you have an interest, contact Tatum Robotics immediately for how one can contribute.