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"Autonomous Mobile Robots for Personalized Caregiving"

Charlie Kemp, PhD

Associate Professor
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Tech

Mobile robots with autonomous capabilities have the potential to provide 24/7 personalized care, dramatically improving the quality of life of people with motor impairments. I will first provide an overview of opportunities for robots to provide beneficial physical assistance in the context of healthcare. I will then focus on my lab’s research to enable people with severe motor impairments to perform everyday tasks for themselves using mobile robots. In particular, I will focus on our work with Henry Evans, who has severe impairments due to a brainstem stroke. Through our research, Henry has been able to perform a number of tasks for himself for the first time in 10 years, such as pulling a blanket over himself, shaving himself, and operating mechanisms in his home. A key aspect of our work has been giving robots the ability to intelligently regulate the forces they apply while providing assistance.

Charles C. Kemp (Charlie) is an Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory and is an adjunct faculty member of the School of Interactive Computing and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He earned a doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2005), an MEng, and BS from MIT. In 2007, he founded the Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech (http://healthcare-robotics.com), which focuses on mobile manipulation and human-robot interaction. He is an active member of Georgia Tech’s Institute for Robotics & Intelligent Machines and its multi-disciplinary Robotics Ph.D. program. He has received the 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award, the Georgia Tech Research Corporation Robotics Award, and the NSF CAREER award. His research has been covered extensively by the popular media, including the New York Times, Technology Review, ABC, and CNN.


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  • Workflow Status:Published
  • Created By:Colly Mitchell
  • Created:04/23/2014
  • Modified By:Fletcher Moore
  • Modified:04/13/2017

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