Delaware’s Go Baby Go Project Receives Funding To Develop Robots For Infants With Mobility Problems

In September 2013, the University of Delaware’s GoBabyGo project received a three-year, $515,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to create driving robots and modified four-wheel vehicles for infants with mobility problems. The project will modify vehicles for children with mobility impairments due to conditions such as cerebral palsy and Down syndrome. During the project the children will use the vehicles to learn mobility and socialization in a setting with other children. The project will test how the vehicles improve the children’s socialization skills and cognition.

The first phase of the GoBabyGo project, which started . . .