The FlyJacket soft exoskeleton turns your body into a drone controller

Researchers with Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a soft exoskeleton that enables its wearer to control a drone using their upper body. Called FlyJacket, the exoskeleton is a human-robot interface (HRI) that offers "natural and intuitive control of drones," according to the university, enabling inexperienced individuals to operate them. Typical drone controls involve a touchscreen and/or joysticks, which researchers say are "neither natural nor intu...