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Carnegie Mellon University

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Henry Evans in his kitchen talking with Akhil Padmanabha and Janavi Gupta, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science who conducted an in-home test of Head-Worn Assistive Teleoperation (HAT) — an experimental interface to control a mobile robot. Evans, a person with quadriplegia, uses a letterboard, a tool that allows him to spell out words by looking at or pointing a laser at each letter, tom communicate.

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