Georgia Tech Research

In-home and remote use of robotic body surrogates by people with profound motor deficits

For about 5 years, researchers from The Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech [principally Phillip Grice and Charlie Kemp], developed a GUI interface so that Henry could use the PR2 Robot as a body surrogate, controlling it with his headtracker. They also successfully tested it with 15 randomly selected individuals with severe disabilities from around the country.

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