Chest-Mounted Robot That Can Feed People When They Are Too Full To Move

Researchers have just made a rather strange robot that can feed people who are just too full to move.

The special robot arm named ‘Arm-A-Dine’ in the form of an arm will attach to a person’s chest and take food from a plate to that person’s mouth.

The researchers said that they developed this robotic arm, which is only a prototype, mostly for augmenting the social experience of eating.

The robot was made by Exertion Games Lab at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Information Technology Design.

In a world where a lot of meals are being taken with smartphones in hands, the researchers hope that the Arm-A-Dine can remind us that eating is a social event.

The robotic arm is attached in the chest via a vest.

The robotic arm will move by themselves but it will not go all the way to your mouth. They will instead stop about 10 centimeters away just to be safe, according to the researchers.

The researchers claim that this robotic arm is not fully autonomous so users need to move to take the food. It can only grab some certain items and also have limited degrees of movement, and do not seem to be really accurate when it comes to actually feeding people

The robot will device which people to give the food based on the facial expressions. It will more likely to offer food to a person that smiles and if a person is frowning, the robot won’t give the food to that person.

Researchers believe that their robot can encourage people to savor the food by making the eating experience a bit slower and also stranger.

This robot is still in the development process and not for sale anywhere. It isn’t clear if and when the arm will be available for sale.