It actually seems like a useful gesture control interface, one that could become a useful part of a workstation setup. We’ve seen gesture controls put to other uses too, like controlling robot arms.

[Ray Kampmeier] just finished writing some code to allow him to control his robotic arm using force-sensitive hand gestures! He calls it the Robo Marionette. He’s using a MeArm 4 DOF robotic … ...

In one trial, the team used "Baxter", a robot from Rethink Robotics, to move a power drill to one of three possible targets on the body of a mock plane.With human supervision, Baxter went from ...

He would then use hand gestures to tell the robot which holes to drill. With human supervision, the robot's target accuracy increased from 70 percent to 97 percent.

That’s why engineer and designer Madeline Gannon developed Quipt, a gesture-based control software that helps industrial robots interact more fluidly with their human handlers.