Robots for humanity: using assistive robotics to empower people with disabilities

By Tiffany L. Chen, Matei T. Ciocarlie, Steve B. Cousins, Phillip M. Grice, Kelsey P. Hawkins, Kaijen Hsiao, Charles C. Kemp, C. King, Daniel A. Lazewatsky, A. Leeper and 5 more. 2013

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Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Occupational Therapy, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• SoftGym: Benchmarking Deep Reinforcement Learning for Deformable Object Manipulation (2020, background): “Robotic manipulation of deformable objects has a rich history across various fields, such as folding laundry [1], preparing food [18], or assistive dressing and feeding [19, 20].”
• A Multimodal Anomaly Detector for Robot-Assisted Feeding Using an LSTM-Based Variational Autoencoder (2017, background): “Robots can provide assistance for activities of daily living such as robot-assisted feeding [1] and shaving [2].”
• Robotic manipulation and sensing of deformable objects in domestic and industrial applications: a survey (2018, background): “…plants could use robots to manipulate flexible objects in order to lessen physically burdens on workers (Acker and Henrich 2003; Rambow et al. 2012) or robots becoming more involved in caregiving activities (e.g. dressing, feeding) for the elder and disabled (Chen et al. 2013; Yamazaki et al. 2014).”