Surgical Robot Arm
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Final Product |
Below is a video of our robot arm in action. You can see how it pivots on a base, rotates up and down on the tower, extends and retracts on the arm itself, and can open and close the claw. In the video we are controlling the arm so it picks up a screw driver and drops it off later. This video effectively captures the general motions our robot arm was capable of.
Reflection
This project taught me a lot about the design process and what is involved in projects concerning physical designs and programming code. This was the first project where we had to program a code ourselves, but although it was challenging at first, we eventually got the hang of it. Overall, our design was very successful. Our arm was operated remotely and could go up and down, left and right, extend and retract, and open or close the claw to pick things up. Possible next steps to this project could be to add a fifth degree of rotation so the claw can spin side to side or move up and down. This project was a great experience and I am glad I learned so much from accomplishing it.