Document Type
Honors Thesis
Abstract
An estimated 58,000 individuals in the United States alone require assistance with eating and drinking. Current robotic technologies on the commercial market that attach to electric wheelchairs, and are capable of performing motions associated with eating and drinking, cost around $30,000. This exorbitant cost renders many persons with a disability reliant on other people for their basic care. In partial fulfillment of MAE 4188, our senior design group has designed and built a wheelchair attachable, assistive robotic arm capable of reaching a distance of two feet to retrieve a two-pound object. The target cost for the prototype is $1500. In completion of this project, we will bring an affordable mobility solution to those who need it most.
Publication Date
5-1-2019
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Jackson, Amelia, "ASSISTIVE ROBOTIC ARM" (2019). 2019 Spring Honors Capstone Projects. 30.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/honors_spring2019/30