Integrating intelligent robot arms into everyday households.

The Project

Hundreds of Hours are wasted each month on doing boring repetitive laborious chores and I wanted a scalable solution in the form of a intelligent robot arm to automate household chores. By surveying people most likely to be responsible for doing chores at home, getting a robot price range. I began coming up with a design for a robotic arm. After 300 CAD iterations and 3 prototype arms testing for functionality and build quality. I assembled an arm the costs only $500 to manufacture compared to its $10k + counterparts. After construction, I trained a yolo image detection model that can detect laundry on the floor. I then set up a coordinate system through a depth-sensing camera, wrote inverse kinematics calculations I send to an arduino which controls actuation using the Accelstepper library.

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