Voice-Activated Robot Feeds You Your Desired Dish
From: IEEE Spectrum - 03/21/2011
By: Angelica Lim

A meal assistance system, a robot that detects the food on your plate and
feeds you your desired dish, was developed by Isao Wakabayashi, an undergrad
at Chukyo University, Japan. He used the Rascal robot set from Robix, and
wrote his own image processing software to automatically recognize meal
items. It labels all the pieces on your plate, so that you can use voice
command to choose your next bite. "Pudding, please!" 

Read the entire article and view a video at:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/medical-robots/voice-activated-robot-feeds-you

Links:
Robix
http://www.robix.com/

Secom MySpoon robot
http://www.secom.co.jp/english/myspoon/usage.html

Meal Buddy Assistive Feeder
http://www.lifecaresoln.com/The_Meal_Buddy_p/081454xx.htm