• Robotic assistant, co-designed by Yiran Zuo and Chenlu Wu, is a new smart home assistant which cooperate with Baxter from Rethink Robotics. The initial purpose to design it is to help individuals with C4-C7 spinal cord injury who have trouble in feeding themselves. However, with deeper developing, our device has wider application in daily life.
• The first attempt to develop and apply advanced food recognition algorithm to daily home care robot. Precisely find out the location of the food and accurately guide the end effector to pick up the food to send to our user
• Combining both autonomous operation and human verbal control to keep the user engaged and entertained and improve the device accuracy
• Cost effectively: In order to preparing for massive production and manufacturing, we make it more affordable for users while maintains its strong functionalities.