Anyone who's played a first-person shooter will be familiar with using the direction that a character is looking to also control the direction they move. The concept is known as "free look control." Firefighters in Pisa, Italy, have been testing this method for operating emergency response robots... Continue Reading FPS control method tested with emergency response robots
Section: Robotics
Tags: Emergencies, Games, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Robots
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