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12/2/07

Communist Robot - Wearable technology at work in the European Union - by Robin Piquepaille

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Wearable technology at work in the European Union - by Robin Piquepaille

"The European Union has funded an ambitious project related to wearable technology. This project, named WearIT@work will end in one year and was funded with 14.3 million €, even if the total project cost is expected to exceed 23 million €. For mobile workers, the goal is to replace traditional interfaces, such as screen, keyboard or computer unit, by speech control or gesture control, without modifying the applications. This wearable system is currently being tested in four different fields including aircraft maintenance, emergency response, car production and healthcare..."

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