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- 2. A freedom taken In order to find a problem, I looked to the people around me. In my search, I talked to my friend Carter, who has cerebral palsy. A problem he has is that he cannot feed himself. Could you imagine not being able to feed yourself. He is too embarrassed to eat with friends because they would have to feed him. I wanted to give him a freedom back that cerebral palsy took away from him. I wanted to help him so that he could feed himself.
- 3. A problem to a community • There are over 500,000 people in the United states with cerebral palsy, and even more with people other ailments that cause this same problem. That’s a large portion of our community that can’t even feed themselves. We need to help improve their lives. We can’t cure cerebral palsy, but we can help improve the lives of anyone with it the best we can. It’s a whole community, and It’s the people around us. I know a handful of people with cerebral palsy, and making something to help them feed themselves would greatly improve their lives.
- 4. It’s already fixed? I decided that I wanted to make a robot that would help them eat. A robot that they could control. While doing research I discovered that they have already invented a feeding robot. The catch is that it is 5000 dollars. That’s a lot of money, money that a lot of families do not have. The one thing wrong with innovations for the special needs, is that they are so expensive. A whole portion of the community is eliminated, because they can’t afford it. Plus it’s hard to transport.
- 5. Your friendly neighborhood feeding bot • After figuring out that there has already been a bot, I needed to find a way to improve it. I set off to make it cheaper, and easily transportable. That’s where Seymour comes in. Seymour is a robotic arm, powered by hydraulics, that is easy to use, transport, and will help people with cerebral palsy feed themselves. It will have a 1‐foot arm that can lift, lower and rotate. It will lower, scoop up food, lift, and rotate the food into the controller’s mouth. The bowl will also rotate to allow the changing of food scooped up. All of this will be controlled by a one hand controller (since people with cerebral palsy can only use one hand). It will use chap materials like wood, plastic, and smaller hydraulics to keep it affordable for most people.
- 6. One small robot, one giant impact This robot can give a freedom back to hundreds of thousands of people who lost the freedom to feed themselves. It will help improve the lives of a community that absolutely deserves it. It will help people like Carter, and it will help make our world a better place to live. I hope this will be a start to a new generation of cheap and accessible innovations for the special needs community.
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