April 10, 2024

By Louis DiPietro

For people with mobility limitations, the tasks of daily living – like getting out of bed or eating – can be impossible without help. Tapomayukh “Tapo” Bhattacharjee, assistant professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, believes assistive robotics have the potential to better the lives of people who have mobility limitations and relieve some of the caregivers’ workload. 

By Tom Fleischman for the Cornell Chronicle

Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee has been working on assistive robotics for approximately a decade, and in speaking to the people who would benefit from new technologies, he’s come to a few realizations.