A team led by researchers at the University of Washington created a set of 11 actions a robotic arm can make to pick up nearly any food attainable by fork. This allows the system to learn to pick up ...

Sara Mustafa’s uncle couldn’t feed himself after his cancer paralyzed him — so she and her classmates designed a robot that could hold the spoon for him. The Optimized Meal Assistance Robot, or OMAR, ...

My years of health and wellness expertise don't apply to just humans. I very much care about the well-being of our furry home companions too. I've taken care of pets for as long as I can remember, so ...

Researchers deployed a robotic feeding arm in a pair of studies outside the lab. In the first, six users with motor impairments used the robot to feed themselves a meal in a UW cafeteria, an office or ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The robot-guided smART+ Platform vs. manual care for enteral feeding demonstrated higher feeding efficacy.

It might seem a little bit counterintuitive, but one of the more carbon-neutral ways of heating one’s home is by burning wood. Since the carbon for the trees came out of the air a geologically ...

Robots that watch for social cues could feed people by gauging when they are ready for a mouthful. This may make it easier for people who can’t feed themselves, such as those with tetraplegia, to ...

Jan Jacobs is the human-robot interaction design lead for Lely, a maker of agricultural machinery. Founded in 1948 in Maassluis, Netherlands, Lely deployed its first Astronaut milking robot in the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) James Pikul, University of Wisconsin-Madison (THE CONVERSATION) Earlier this year, a ...