On the Horizon: A Robot to Assist ALS Patients | Newswise: News for Journalists

Credit: John Griffin, Stony Brook University

Some members of the CART research team assembled in the New Computer Sciences Building. Vibha Mullick, and her husband, ALS patient Anuraag Mullick, in the center. Back row, from left: Clare Whitney, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Theresa Imperato, C.R. Ramakrishnan, and Wei Zhu. Front row, from left, are Maria Milazzo and I.V. Ramakrishnan.

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Credit: John Griffin, Stony Brook University

Demonstrating one of the CART designs in a Stony Brook engineering lab are I.V. Ramakrishnan and Nilanjan Chakraborty, who shows how to move the robot’s arm essentially “training” it to hold a cup and move its arm to a designated location.

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