The motivation of the project came from watching the movie surrogate. We noticed that the surrogate robot can go through many hazardous conditions and environments that humans cannot. Obviously we do not have the technical knowledge and resources to create these full scale robots with that much detail. What if instead we could control the robots with our actual movements instead of using a joystick or controller? Also we could not make a full scale robot let alone control it during our 1 semester building phase of senior design. So we thought of the minimum viable product that would be the most useful. We settled on a robotic arm. This is arguable one of the most useful parts of the human body, the dexterity of 5 fingers and the 3 degrees of freedom of a whole arm.
Our project was sponsored Hans Leidenfrost and Daniel Ellis at HP. Contact Email: daniel.ellis@hp.com
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