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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, ...

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 ...

The meal-assisting robot has been developed by researchers at the University of Washington. The robot uses a specially developed object-detection algorithm termed RetinaNet. The algorithm enables the ...