A symbiotic robotic arm for meal assistance

FeedBot
FeedBot aims to be a meal assistant robot that perceives the environment, localizes and tracks the head of the user, and cooperatively places the end-effector in a comfortable and safe position for the user to eat up the food. With its autonomy and learning, FeedBot will have a great impact in the quality of life of people with a wide range of motion-related disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, cerebral palsy, or stroke.
Reference:
CMU/ECE/0005/2017
From: 2018-09
To: 2019-08
Funding: 26,263.70
Funders: FCT
Partner: CMU; M-ITI Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute

Signal and Image Processing Group (SIPG)

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