{"id":12911,"date":"2020-11-05T08:10:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T13:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/?p=12911"},"modified":"2020-11-05T08:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T13:10:06","slug":"man-invents-robot-to-insert-and-remove-contact-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/blogs\/mornings\/2020\/11\/man-invents-robot-to-insert-and-remove-contact-lenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Invents Robot To Insert And Remove Contact Lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0<a class=\"tpstyle\" title=\"Florida man\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Florida-man\/\">Florida man<\/a>\u00a0who requires special contact lenses to see invented a robot to help people with dexterity issues insert and remove their lenses.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Hershoff, who uses\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cliaraeyes.com\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special contacts known<\/a>\u00a0as scleral lenses, said he invented his voice-activated robot to help elderly patients and others with dexterity issues insert and remove their contact lenses without another person&#8217;s assistance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve tried the device on elderly people, I&#8217;m elderly too, and it really helps with dexterity. They&#8217;ve all liked it and appreciate how well it works,&#8221; Hersoff\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/health\/2020\/11\/02\/miami-man-invents-robot-to-insert-special-contact-lenses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told WPLG-TV.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The robot uses suction cups designed to create the ideal amount of suction to insert and remove the lenses easily.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bMnSr9Ol2UU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\u00a0Florida man\u00a0who requires special contact lenses to see invented a robot to help people with dexterity issues insert and remove their lenses. Craig Hershoff, who uses\u00a0special contacts known\u00a0as scleral lenses, said he invented his voice-activated robot to help elderly patients and others with dexterity issues insert and remove their contact lenses without another person&#8217;s assistance.","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":12913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3746,3745,3743,3744],"class_list":["post-12911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings","tag-contact-lense","tag-eyes","tag-robot","tag-technology"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 23:48:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/1017theone.ca\/blogs\/mornings\/2020\/11\/man-invents-robot-to-insert-and-remove-contact-lenses\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12912,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911\/revisions\/12912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}