Robot lends people with disabilities a helping arm

The Vancouver Sun reported on a robot created to help people with disabilities.

Aether, a “collaborative service robot,” was a collaboration among post-doctoral students at UBC and SFU and developers with JDQ Systems. Sina Radmard, a Mitacs post-doctoral fellow at UBC, said researchers are working on the robot’s autonomous navigation system.

The story also appeared in the Times Colonist.