NIH R01 · 2024
NRI: Adaptive Teleoperation Interfaces for In-Home Assistive Robots
Mobile manipulators that can navigate and physically interact with their environment have the potential to assist people with motor limitations in carrying out activities of daily living independently. Despite this great potential, robots that can be safely deployed in the homes of these users do not yet exist. Until recently one of the key reasons for this gap was the lack of available hardware platforms, but the release of Stretch – a new low-cost, light-weight, inherently safe, and highly capable mobile manipulator – has greatly reduced the barrier to in-home deployments. A second key reason is the difficulty of robust autonomy given the vast variations across home environment. A…
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