Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · Mar 24

I have been working on electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) for physical assistance for more than a decade (in affordance++, we showed EMS can help manipulate tools!). But, EMS-assistance is highly specialized and non-contextual—it ignores your body pose & ignores your needs 2/6

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Pedro Lopes · Mar 24

Instead, in embodied-ai.tech we explore a different approach where muscle-stimulation instructions are AI-generated considering the user’s context (e.g., pose, location, surroundings). The resulting system can perform physical assistance without any custom programming! 3/7