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A Pivot-Based Kirigami Utensil for Hand-Held and Robot-Assisted Feeding
Description
Eating is a daily challenge for over 60 million adults with essential tremors and other mobility limitations. For these users, traditional utensils like forks or spoons are difficult to manipulate -- resulting in accidental spills and restricting the types of food that can be consumed. Prior work has developed rigid, hand-held utensils that often fail to secure food, as well as soft, shape-changing utensils made strictly for robot-assisted feeding. To assist a broader range of users, we introduc