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Various Foods Handling Movement of Chopstick-Equipped Meal Assistant Robot and There Evaluation

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2012)

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Recently, the development of daily life support or assistant robots have come into demand as a result of the impact of the decreasing birthrate and increasing the aging population. We have developed a new meal assistant robot for use by disabled or elderly persons who cannot eat unassisted. In addition, we use chopsticks as the meal tool because chopsticks are capable of various movements and are familiar to people in Asian countries. In the present paper, the basic system of this robot is introduced. In addition, various food handling movements are investigated, and an evaluation experiment is performed in order to investigate the feasibility of the newly developed robot.

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  1. Tokai University, 1117 Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa, 259-1292, Japan

    Akira Yamazaki & Ryosuke Masuda

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  1. Akira Yamazaki
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  1. Interactive Digial Media Institute, Social Robotics Laboratory, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, 117576, Singapore, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge  & John-John Cabibihan  & 

  2. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Gates Building, 94305-9010, Stanford, CA, USA

    Oussama Khatib

  3. Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Reid Simmons

  4. Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Human-robot Collaboration Studio, 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Mary-Anne Williams

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Yamazaki, A., Masuda, R. (2012). Various Foods Handling Movement of Chopstick-Equipped Meal Assistant Robot and There Evaluation. In: Ge, S.S., Khatib, O., Cabibihan, JJ., Simmons, R., Williams, MA. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7621. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34103-8_16

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