For those who are visually impaired, doing the simplest tasks and activities isn’t always easy to complete. If a blind person can give a robot a voice command to do a simple task, such as “Please open the fridge, pick up the water bottle and bring it to me,” it can change his or her life.
For Cal State Fullerton’s technology researchers computer engineering career, Anand Panangadan and their students, they are working to do just that by using assistive technology to improve the quality of life for blind veterans.
The researchers are developing a low-cost, voice-controlled robotic arm to assist visually impaired veterans in performing routine daily activities, such as opening a door and retrieving items from the refrigerator.
The project is funded by a nearly $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. George is directing the hardware aspects of the project, including building the robotic arm, interfacing various sensors and cameras to the arm and training the arm to perform tasks.
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