Researchers develop interface for quadriplegics to control robots

Carnegie Mellon University researchers lived with Henry and Jane Evans for a week to test their Head-Worn Assistive Teleoperation (HAT) device with Henry, who lost his ability to speak and move his limbs 20 years ago.

No one could blame Carnegie Mellon University students Akhil Padmanabha and Janavi Gupta if they were a bit anxious this past August as they traveled to the Bay Area home of Henry and Jane Evans.

The students were about to live with strangers for the next seven days. On top of that, Henry, a person with quadriplegia, would spend the week putting their Head-Worn Assistive Teleoperation (HAT) — an experimental interface to control a mobile robot — to the test.

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