This particular device is called the Gesture Controlled RTV (Rough Terrain Vehicle).
The inspiration for this device was born out of the recent earthquake in Mexico. On September 20th, a 7.1 Magnitude earthquake hit Mexico, causing at least 200 fatalities and causing several buildings and establishments to collapse. The idea was to create a device that can function as a cheap, search and rescue robot that can be operated with human precision, but has the durability of a machine, allowing it to enter physically hostile territories where human presence may be hazardous (such as remnants of a collapsed building, caves with toxic gases, or other similar situations).
This device uses a glove with a flex sensor attached to a glove to control the speed of the robot. With the help of a gyroscope (also attached to the glove), the robot changes direction when the orientation of the glove-wearer's hand changes. A PIR sensor is also attached to the robot so that it has the ability to detect potential human survivors, and record this fact on to an SD Card so that we can know the number of people that need to be rescued and potentially their locations as well.
The next step of this project would be to use a device like the raspberry pi along with a camera and an FPV remote so that the robot can stream a live video feed, thereby making it exponentially easier to search and rescue potential survivors.
The 2 minute demo can be seen on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2sqm3lYvgU&feature=youtu.be
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