The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The ...

When a person loses a limb, a prosthesis often can help restore a significant degree of mobility. But when movement or ...

When the robotics engineering field that Maja Matarić wanted to work in didn’t exist, she helped create it. In 2005 she helped define the new area of socially assistive robotics. As an associate ...

Medical robotics is entering a new phase of development, one in which technological innovation is increasingly expected to translate into meaningful ...

When someone has been rendered tetraplegic by a spinal cord injury, they may still retain partial use of their wrists. An experimental device has been designed to help such folks lift cumbersome ...

Up until recently, this work has mostly been evaluated in the lab. But last year, researchers deployed the assistive feeding arm in a pair of studies outside the lab. In the first, six users with ...

For about 10 years, researchers at the University of Washington’s Personal Robotics Lab have been developing a robotic arm that can help people with motor impairments, such as quadriplegics, feed ...

Using a socially assistive robot (SAR) in post-stroke rehabilitation improves outcomes, according to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers. They conducted the first long-term study of robot ...

For people with upper extremity disabilities — such as a stroke, multiple sclerosis or other conditions — assistive robotics can help restore their independence in performing everyday tasks like ...