Robotic arm using voice and Gesture recognition

There is an increasing need to create robots for different situations and applications involving the medical field as well as other fields where human interaction is challenging and unsafe. Ease of control operation greatly impact their effective application. In this paper, a robotic arm controlled by gesture movements and voice commands is proposed and constructed using 3D printing. The gesture data is developed using an accelerometer with a pre-selected voice commands using voice recognition module based on a Bluetooth communication protocol for the microcontroller. The prototype has 3 degrees of freedom (DOF) and can perform predefined controlled robotic program operations. Performance evaluation was carried out through various experiments, with promising results for numerous medical applications.