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But first, pizza: Team creates assistive robotics that can make you a meal , articleCould robots help those with mobility issues make a pizza? With support from the National Science Foundation, a team of Virginia Tech mechanical engineers are using robotic grippers and artificial intelligence to make that idea a reality.
Date: Jul 28, 2025 - -
Video ItemA helping hand for wheelchair users , video
A group of undergraduates in the senior design program of the Department of Mechanical Engineering have worked with Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy to create a new robotic hand that provides valuable assistance. As the team reaches the end of their design cycle, they look back with the sponsors over the year of victories and challenges.
Date: May 01, 2025 - -
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Research turns robotic hardware into flatware , articleEating meals can be a challenge for people with limited mobility. Virginia Tech researchers have created a new robot-friendly utensil to assist.
Date: Feb 07, 2025 - -
Video ItemEngineering a better way to eat , video
Virginia Tech researchers, along with collaborators at Cornell University, have created a new robot friendly utensil to assist individuals with limited mobility. The kiri-spoon – from “kirigami,” the Japanese art form of cutting paper – can both grasp like a fork and scoop like a spoon.
Date: Jan 30, 2025 - -
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Dylan Losey receives National Science Foundation CAREER award to build assistive AI , articleLosey leads a team that has explored the possibilities of human-robot interaction, and now he will expand that research to develop robots that understand — and are understood by — their everyday users.
Date: Feb 27, 2024 - -
Video ItemBME major Julia Wakefield found her passion through service and helping others. , video
<div><div>Julia Wakefield, a Biomedical Engineering major in the Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics department found purpose in service and working with the local community. ENABLE, a club at Virginia Tech gave Wakefield an outlet to create prosthetics for youth in need.</div></div>
Date: May 13, 2021 - -
Video ItemHokieTalks: Assistive technology for farmers with mobility limitations , video
Alexander Leonessa, Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering, presented during the 2019 HokieTalks. Watch his talk, "Assistive technology for farmers with mobility limitations."
Date: Oct 31, 2019 - -
Video ItemResearchers design software, creating robots to help humans , video
Virginia Tech researchers in the Hybrid Dynamic Systems and Robot Locomotion design software for different gaits of legged robots, allowing the machines to assist people with disabilities to walk and to assist or replace humans in hazardous environments.
Date: Sep 16, 2019 - -
Video ItemVirginia Tech students engineer device to help alumna thrive , video
A Virginia Tech couple returns to campus, twenty years after receiving their graduate degrees, to share the power of the Ut Prosim (That I May Serve.)
Date: May 29, 2019 - -
Video ItemHarvesting watermelons with agBOT , video
A student-lead team designed the agBOT watermelon harvester to help aging farmers. The machine can autonomously identify and harvest ripe watermelons. A passive slapper mechanism thumps the watermelons in a way that is similar to how a person tests one at the supermarket, and an onboard microphone helps agBOT determine whether or not to harvest the watermelon.
Date: Jun 14, 2018 -