Our progress so far

Marketing Video & Poster

With symposium around the corner, we've created a poster and marketing video to summarize our project. Check them out below:

Final Crunch

These past two weeks we've been working non stop to get the robot ready for demos. Here's how our progress went: Electrical Last week we...

The Legs are All Assembled!

Assembly of mechanical components required for the robot dog to move have just been assembled. The next stages are to create mounts for...

Let's Get Moving!

With the first leg finished, it was time to start implementing the controls for the legs. Before we can start implementing the walking...

IMU, Batteries and Jetson

This week on the electrical side, a large mix of things were done. First a driver was found for the IMU and tested out. This was done by...

Using a Water Jet to Cut Aluminum Components

All of the sheet metal components on the robot are being made with the use of the CNC water jet service offered at the University of...

State of the CAD (January)

Currently, the bulk of the robot has been designed and has started to be machined. Most of the structural components have been iterated...

Detecting Leaves

To be able to detect coffee rust on leaves, our robot must first be able to detect leaves in general. As such, a model was trained on a...

The Parts are Rolling In

Before the winter break, the DS5160 servos were sourced from a vendor on AliExpress. The vendor was actually kind enough to give us a...