The development of Handy 1. A robotic system to assist the severely disabled.

The Handy 1 was developed in 1987 by Mike Topping to assist an eleven-year-old boy with cerebral palsy to eat unaided. The system is the most successful low-cost, commercially available robotic system in the world to date, capable of assisting the most severely disabled with several everyday functio...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Technology & Disability Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 95 - 106
Main Authors: Topping MJ, Smith JK
Format: pictorial Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. 1999
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