How can assistive robots improve people’s lives? How assistive robots improve people’s lives?

Dr. Henny Admoni and the Human And Robot Partners (HARP) lab specialize in fully autonomous robotics applications that can recognize human intent and take an active role in assisting the human. In this lab tour, the scholars were exposed to a fully autonomous robot that uses assistive manipulation through intent recognition by leveraging eye gaze and speech recognition. This specific application is designed to accommodate the 19.9 million Americans that suffer from upper body limitations.

More about the HARP Lab:

http://harp.ri.cmu.edu/
https://www.ri.cmu.edu/robotics-groups/human-and-robot-partners-lab/

More about RISS Mentor, Dr. Henny Admoni:

http://hennyadmoni.com/index.php
https://www.ri.cmu.edu/ri-faculty/henny-admoni/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XXiZaA4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Last year, a RISS alumna focused her project on using eye gaze behavior to anticipate a user’s goals.
RISS 2018