Food-focused autonomous robot arm knows how to use the forks

The idea is that when it's time to chow down, the arm scans the plate with the camera to figure out the shape and size of each piece of food.

Built into the arm are haptic sensors to help it feel how much force it's applying, as well as a camera to identify what's on a plate and the face of the person it's feeding.

The end result sounds like a more advanced version of other mobility aids like the Obi arm. (New Atlas)

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The researchers note that this damage rate means a significant volume of the picked lettuces did not meet supermarket standards, however they still remained edible. Engineers from the University of Cambridge have developed a vegetable-picking robot that can autonomously identify and harvest iceberg lettuce, one of the more manually demanding crops for human pickers. (New Atlas)