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Carnegie Mellon University

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Henry Evans uses Head-Worn Assistive Teleoperation (HAT) to control a robot to manipulate a blanket. HAT is an experimental interface to control a mobile robot developed by Akhil Padmanabha and Janavi Gupta, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. Evans, a person with quadriplegia, tested HAT in his home and used it to complete daily tasks.

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