Robotic food feeder

A food feeder robot to assist elderly patients to eat food is proposed. A patient can bring the food into his mouth easily by using the man-machine interface with a CRT display and a mouse. The robot has a structure of a 3-DOF arm and a hand with a spoon and fork. A CCD camera is attached to the tip of the robot arm. By using a fabricated 1-DOF robot, the validity of the proposed control scheme using the man-machine interface is confirmed.