People with restricted mobility currently require significant infrastructural support in order to perform activities of daily living (ADL), including things like manipulating objects, opening doors, and other basic actions that able-bodied people often take for granted. With the current state-of-the-art robotic arms, hands, and perception systems, it is clear that robotic grasping systems could help reduce the dependency severely disabled individuals have on live-in caretakers, and provide them with the ability to actively interact with their environment.
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