Device and method for wireless material handling systems

A method of operating a material handling device, comprising the steps of:

• providing an instrumented glove wearable on a human operator's hand;
• pressing by said human operator wearing said instrumented glove on a part of said material handling device or an object being carried by said material handling device;
• sensing the contact force imposed by said human operator's hand on said material handling device or said object;
• transmitting a set of control signals representing said contact force from a transmitter circuitry;
• receiving said control signals through a receiver circuitry;
• and
• employing said control signals to control said actuator to move said material handling device and said object through a trajectory such that said human contact force is smaller than a human force that would be required to move said object through said trajectory without the aid of said material handling device.

A rotating table system for rotating at least one object, said rotating table system comprising:

• at least one actuator to cause said rotating table system to turn;
• an instrumented glove wearable by a human hand that detects a contact force imposed by said human hand on said object or a part of said rotating table system, and generates a set of contact signals representing said contact force;
• at least one transmitter circuitry capable of transmitting a set of control signals representing said contact signals to other locations;
• and
• a controller to receive and process said control signals and to generate a set command signals to control said actuator to cause said rotating table system to move such that said actuator and rotating table system turn causing said object and said rotating table system to follow the operator hand motion.