Engineers build AI-powered ultrasound wristband that enables realtime control of robotic hands, VR

(9 Jun 2026)
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1. Aerial tracking shot of the iconic Great Dome of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ++MUTE AT SOURCE++

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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Xuanhe Zhao, MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering: ++COVERED++
"We developed a wristband that can track continuous motion of your hand."

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3. Close up of the Great Dome

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4. MIT mechanical engineering graduate student Dian Li demonstrates how an ultrasound wristband can help a robotic hand mimic full hand motion  in real time
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dian Li, MIT Graduate Student: ++CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS SHOT++
“This robotic hand can follow the gesture I’m doing."
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Xuanhe Zhao, MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering: ++COVERED++
“And then use this data to control dexterous robotic hand to do daily tasks, such as cleaning the house, such as doing even surgeries."
7. Close up of the robotic hand and Li’s arm during a lab demonstration

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8. Dian Li flexing his fingers while wearing the ultrasound wristband, with a computer screen in the background showing continuous, real-time changes in the muscles and tendons under his skin
9. Overhead shot of Dian Li strapping the ultrasound wristband onto his forearm

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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Xuanhe Zhao, MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"This wristband, actually, is a small ultrasound imager, similar to the ultrasound that you do in a hospital, imaging heart, imaging babies, you know, in the body. But this, you know, wristband will image your wrist – the muscles, tendon, their motion in the wrist.”

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11. Close up of Dian Li powering on the ultrasound wristband

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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Xuanhe Zhao, MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering: ++COVERED++
"There is a software component, which is the AI algorithm we developed that can decipher this image into continuous hand motion.”
13. Dian Li tweaking software for the ultrasound wristband and testing the results

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14. Close up of the wristband strapped onto Dian Li’s forearm in the foreground, with the control software on the computer screen in the background
15. Dian Li showing the ultrasound wristband on his forearm
16. Close up of the ultrasound wristband

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17. Various of Dian Li demonstrating the system at work in the lab
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Xuanhe Zhao, MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering: ++COVERED++
"One scenario is a person wearing the wristband and then doing all kinds of hand motion. In real time, a robotic hand – you know, can be in the same room or in another city – receiving this data, doing the same motion.”
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Xuanhe Zhao, MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++

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20. Close up of the ultrasound image of Dian Li’s wrist as he uses the wristband

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21. Dian Li checking the position of his ultrasound wristband and tweaking its software in the lab

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