Students of Dawood University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi built a prototype of a robot that can work wirelessly with hand gestures. The robot is controlled by the device called Leap Motion. Students, belonged to the department of Computer Systems Engineering of the university Share this…FacebookTwitterLinkedin
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