A robotics researcher at the university designs the first two-armed assistive dressing robot.
By Emily JohnsonA new two-armed robot capable of helping a person get dressed has been created by researchers in York.
"With the current one-armed machine scheme a patient is required to do too much work in order for a robot to assist them, moving their arm up in the air or bending it in ways that they might not be able to do," Dr Zhu said. "We adopted a method called learning from demonstration, which means that you don't need an expert to programme a robot, a human just needs to demonstrate the motion that is required of the robot and the robot learns that action," he said.
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