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Henry Evans and Chad Jenkins: Meet the robots for humanity

TED Talks201300:10:21Creative Commons
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Paralyzed by a stroke, Henry Evans uses a telepresence robot to take the stage -- and show how new robotics, tweaked and personalized by a group called Robots for Humanity, help him live his life. He shows off a nimble little quadrotor drone, created by a team led by Chad Jenkins, that gives him the ability to navigate space -- to once again look around a garden, stroll a campus … (Filmed at TEDxMidAtlantic.)

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TEDTalks, TED, Talks, culture, disability, technology, TEDxMidAtlantic, 2013

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