Assistance

The ability to manipulate our environment is key to our lives and agency. Assistive robots are a promising technology to restore this capability to individuals living with neuromotor disabilities — but available control interfaces for these robots are slow, unreliable, and don’t adapt to new users. We leverage emerging biosensing technologies (from sonomyography to IMUs) and HCI-informed system design to enable users to interact with assistive devices more naturally, reliably, and with less burdensome calibration.

Developing effective assistance platforms requires addressing many integrated, interdependent open questions regarding user capability and intent and robot control and design, and we approach these questions holistically alongside our user and caregiver communities. Check out our publications below for our most recent results, and visit our contact page to get involved as a device user.