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Home / News / Science News / Robotic caretaker: The machine that can feed you on command
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    Robotic caretaker: The machine that can feed you on command

    Shubham Sharma
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    Shubham Sharma
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    Last updated on Mar 11, 2019, 04:28 pm
    Robotic caretaker: The machine that can feed you on command
  • We have already seen how good, not to mention productive, machines can be.

    They can handle a range of tasks, but this time around, researchers have built a robot that can feed you on a single command.

    It works in conjunction with Amazon's Alexa and could help differently-abled people with their routine activities one day.

    Here's how this machine works.

  • In this article
    Robot scooping fruit pieces and feeding to a human Here's the robot in action How this robot works? Plus, they worked with human caretakers Now, they're working to advance its capabilities Obi, a home-based robot can already feed people
  • How?

    Robot scooping fruit pieces and feeding to a human

    Robot scooping fruit pieces and feeding to a human
  • Built by researchers from the University of Washington, the robot is a mechanical arm that triggers on command.

    Ethan Gordon, a doctoral student at the university, recently demoed its capabilities, GeekWire reported.

    Gordon just said "Alexa, tell the robot to get a strawberry" and the bot moved on its own, scooped up a piece of fruit from the plate, feeding it to him.

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    Here's the robot in action

  • "Alexa, tell the robot to get a strawberry," commands @UW doctoral student Ethan Gordon. Robots like this could one day help people who aren't able to perform everyday tasks live more independently. pic.twitter.com/f9Wz8YHQLv

    — James Thorne (@jamescthorne) March 9, 2019
  • Working

    How this robot works?

    How this robot works?
  • The robot uses a range of sensors and an algorithm working on a set of rules (defined by the researchers) to find a piece of fruit and then pick it up for feeding.

    Speaking to GeekWire, the researchers said they had asked real people to feed a mannequin in order to train the robot to scoop and feed different fruits, including bananas.

  • Information

    Plus, they worked with human caretakers

  • While training the robot how to find and pick up fruit items, the researchers also worked with caregivers to teach the machine how to feed as a real human would. "Feeding is so intimate. It's also a social activity," Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, team member, told GeekWire.

  • Development

    Now, they're working to advance its capabilities

    Now, they're working to advance its capabilities
  • Now that the robotic arm can feed on command, the team is exploring ways to trigger the machine without speaking.

    They say it can be modified to work with different assistants, but an additional accessibility tech would make it better.

    Ultimately, they want to improve the bot to the point when it can serve as a fully-functional system to help people with daily activities.

  • Information

    Obi, a home-based robot can already feed people

  • Notably, a robot called Obi can already feed people, but its functionality is fairly limited. Siddhartha Srinivasa, a professor of computer science and engineering at UW, claims the days of fully-functional helping robots are still decades away.

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