Willow Garage, a group that develops robots and related open source software for personal applications, has announced a partnership with the Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech, called Robots for Humanity, to learn how the PR2 robot developed at the “garage” can help a person with serious post stroke disabilities. Henry Evans, a stroke victim who’s only able to move his head and one finger, is now controlling the robot using a computer interface and it looks like he’s able to overcome the most pressing initial problem – how to scratch an itch.
(hat tip: Engadget)
