The robotic device, Liftware Level, is the second offering from Liftware, a company devoted to developing tools to aid those with motor impairments that was acquired by Google in 2014. Level is the ...

Stefanie Putnam smiles broadly as she eats a spoonful of rice in the cafeteria at Verily, the Alphabet-owned life-sciences research firm. She’s here to demonstrate the Liftware Level, a smart utensil ...

Liftware has designed a spoon that helps those with limited hand and arm mobility. The spoon counteracts the unintended movements of the user to keep it level and reduce spillages. A set can be bought ...

A young engineer working on an Army project to help stabilize weapons realized the technology could also help some Parkinson's patients with... A Spoon That Shakes To Counteract Hand Tremors Eating a ...

OAKLAND — A comfortable dinner for Tyrone Cobb involves a towel and the floor of his parents’ home. The 40-year-old with cerebral palsy stretches out on his stomach to eat many of his meals. He’s ...

VANCOUVER — A spoon that was developed to compensate for tremor in the hands of those with Parkinson's disease (PD) or essential tremor (ET) may also prove a useful clinical tool for the neurologist.

Lifting a spoon to your mouth might seem like the easiest thing in the world, but that's not the case for plenty of people who suffer from limited mobility due to spinal injuries, a stroke, or illness ...

OAKLAND >> A comfortable dinner for Tyrone Cobb involves a towel and the floor of his parents’ home. The 40-year-old with cerebral palsy stretches out on his stomach to eat many of his meals. He’s ...

The same way your fancy DSLR lens can automatically track and compensate for vibrations and shaking motions, Lift Labs’ incredibly innovative new Liftware Spoon lets those dealing with Parkinson’s ...

"It is embarrassing when you can't keep food on a spoon," he says." Especially if you like soup or salads, you can't keep salad on a fork." But a San Francisco start up believes it's come up with a ...

OAKLAND — A comfortable dinner for Tyrone Cobb involves a towel and the floor of his parents’ home. The 40-year-old with cerebral palsy stretches out on his stomach to eat many of his meals. He’s ...