A groundbreaking robotic arm developed by the University of Washington's robotics team is offering new hope to amputees and ...

Researchers' first breakthrough, back when the lab was at Carnegie Mellon University, was creating a robotic arm that could use a fork to feed someone a marshmallow. Since then, the robot ...

A major challenge of robotic arms is the weight of the actuators, especially closer to the end of the arm. The long lever arm means more torque is required from the other actuators, and everything ...

The arm is designed to assist people with disabilities. WORCESTER — When someone envisions a robotic arm, they probably are thinking of a large, heavyweight tool used to assemble Ford pickups in ...

Researchers deployed a robotic feeding arm in a pair of studies outside the lab. In the first, six users with motor impairments used the robot to feed themselves a meal in a UW cafeteria, an office or ...