PR2 robot helps quadriplegic man shave as himself

PR2, robot collection of beer, folding laundry, breakfast making jack of all trades has been taken up as a personal assistant for man disabled by a stroke.

Coffee maker Willow Garage has worked with Charlie Kemp and colleagues healthcare Robotics Lab, Georgia Tech, to help Henry Evans and his wife Jane in a project dubbed Robots for humanity.

Sounds rather grandiose, but the aliens robot has made real progress in the life of Evans, who suffered a brain stem stroke at the age of 40, which left him paralyzed and mute. Therapy has enabled him to move his head and a finger.

To enable him to use the computer and the control of PR2. The BOT helped him scratch-itch for the first time in 10 years.

As the vid below shows Evans prefers shave himself with PR2, and not the other person to do so.

The Robot has a motion tracking system, which you can monitor Kinect its movements of the head and Evans can be used for navigation and for manipulating objects.

The project has just commenced and comes after Georgia Tech was awarded last year as part of the PR2 Beta program Willow company. Healthcare Robotics Lab supporting Mobile manipulation for older adults in the home, the project focuses on using the machines help seniors at home.

As you can see in these films, the laboratory already had experience with using his robot EL-(E) to persons with ALS.

Now focuses on the development of software for home care PR2 midfield, as well as the trials of the robot, which examine the real needs.