This DIY Robot Can Feed You, Be Controlled With Just a Look - browngribetwouter

The iCraft Team up. [Credit: Mary Knox Merrill]

Is there anything a robotic arm can't do? They lavatory beguile balls, manufacture microchips, and crush manhood.

Cardinal electrical- and computer-engineering students from Northeastern University idea that robotics' most useful creation should be used in more ways to assist mankind. And thusly they hacked put together a robotic feeding arm that you can control with your just eyes.

The team's Eye-Controlled Robotic Weapon Feeding Technology (iCraft for short) was designed to avail elderly and disabled users who have difficulty feeding themselves. The scheme uses a relatively simple oculus-trailing solvent; to use it, all you have to do is look towards the box with the corresponding food you would like to eat and the robotic arm does the rest (fine, you still have to lean your lead slightly forward).

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Unequal some other human-limited robotic arms that we've seen, you put on't need to precisely control it with a joystick or put in a silicon chip into your brain. As long A you're able to move your pupils round, you can use it.

The livelong system is pretty straightforward and there's nothing new with an arm that moves objects in a designated path. However, the iCraft also represents a helper golem you could actually build at home. The Students give birth already contribute the open-source software can iCraft on the sack up and the sleeve only costs $900 to develop–a significant bargain compared to another self-feeding machines that usually go for $3000 or more.

[Northeast University via Engadget]