El-E Helper Robot for Disabled

El-E is a robotic assistant, created by researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University, capable of picking up and delivering items selected with a laser pointer.

Background:

A team of Emory and Georgia Tech researchers have found a way to instruct a robot to find and deliver an item it may have never seen before using a laser pointer. This could potentially enably disabled individuals. El-E (pronounced like the name Ellie), a robot designed to help users with limited mobility with everyday tasks, autonomously moves to an item selected with a green laser pointer, picks up the item and then delivers it to the user, another person or a selected location such as a table.

For More Information

Robot Fetches Objects With Just a Point and a Click (Press Release, 3/19/08)
http://www.whsc.emory.edu/press_releases2.cfm?announcement_id_seq=13446

Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
http://bme.gatech.edu

Health Systems Institute
http://www.hsi.gatech.edu

Emory ALS Center
http://www.neurology.emory.edu/ALS/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• emory university
• georgia tech
• robotics
• robotic helper
• robot assistant
• als
• motor neuron disease
• lou gehrig's disease
• charcot's disease
• movement disorder
• paralysis
• tool for disabled
• robot for disabled

[nooa81]

Katana is a very suitable robot for this kind of solutions!