Design of Novel Feeding Robot for Korean Food

Abstract

During mealtime, a feeding robot allows a person with upper limbs disability to enjoy chosen food with desired time intervals. Although many feeding machines are developed and commercialized over the world, Korean consumers are still hard to find a feeding robot that can handle the Korean food with boiled rice. In order to handle those kinds of food, we design a novel feeding robotic system that consists of two robotic arms: one is a food grasping robotic arm, and the other is a food transferring robotic arm. We expect that the proposed feeding robot could provide easy handling the Korean food with general bowls. In addition, when one caregiver supports the multiple persons, one part of feeding robots, i.e., a transferring robot, could be effectively applied in facilities or hospitals.