{"id":173688,"date":"2023-10-07T14:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T19:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/robotic-cup-helps-wheelchair-users-stay-hydrated"},"modified":"2023-10-07T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T19:22:52","slug":"robotic-cup-helps-wheelchair-users-stay-hydrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/robotic-cup-helps-wheelchair-users-stay-hydrated","title":{"rendered":"Robotic cup helps wheelchair users stay hydrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robotic-cup-helps-wheelchair-users-stay-hydrated.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mobility impairments such as those caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncbddd\/cp\/facts.html#:~:text=CP%20is%20the%20most%20common, control%20his%20or%20her%20muscles.\"> cerebral palsy<\/a> make it hard for people to perform even simple tasks like drinking a sip of water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegaryjlynnfoundation.org\/meet-gary\">Gary Lynn<\/a>, a Houstonian living with the condition, turned to Rice University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/oedk.rice.edu\/about\"> Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen<\/a> (OEDK) for help making the idea of an assistive-drinking device a reality. Rice undergraduate engineering students Thomas Kutcher and Rafe Neathery rose to the challenge, and the result is RoboCup \u23af a robotic device that enables people with limited mobility to stay hydrated without help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to make it possible for people with cerebral palsy or similar mobility challenges to drink water autonomously rather than needing to rely on caregiver assistance,\u201d said Kutcher, who is a bioengineering major. \u201cThe device is designed for wheelchair users who might have trouble holding a cup, and our hope is that it will grant users greater freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobility impairments such as those caused by cerebral palsy make it hard for people to perform even simple tasks like drinking a sip of water. Gary Lynn, a Houstonian living with the condition, turned to Rice University\u2019s Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK) for help making the idea of an assistive-drinking device a reality. Rice undergraduate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}