PALATINE, Ill. — After a battle with his insurance company, a suburban man’s employer purchased the robotic arm that helps feed him independently. Earlier this year, Kevin Sullivan, 31, shared his ...

Obi is a robot designed to help disabled people feed themselves with less assistance. Created by the robotics firm Desin, Obi features four separate bowls for food and a robotic arm with a spoon that ...

Up until recently, this work has mostly been evaluated in the lab. But last year, researchers deployed the assistive feeding ...

Researchers deployed a robotic feeding arm in a pair of studies outside the lab. In the first, six users with motor impairments used the robot to feed themselves a meal in a UW cafeteria, an office or ...