Robots that fetch: Device could help disabled at home

Technology - 2009

Robots that fetch: Device could help disabled at home

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/12/01/robot.health.aide/index.html
Scanned by: Alvis Brigis over 4 years ago

Professor Charles Kemp, director of the Center for Healthcare Robotics at Georgia Tech in Atlanta and his colleagues are programming robots to locate and fetch common household items such as a hairbrush, a bottle of pills, a cell phone or a TV remote. El-E also can open doors.

Type: Prototype | Also: Robotics |

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