The Vision Robotics SCOPE team will conceptualize, design, and prototype an automated fruit picking end effector for use by the tree fruit industry. The design will include considerations for low production costs, a life time on the order of millions of cycles, and a picking time of less than a second.
The Linden Lab SCOPE project goal is to promote enrollment and retention of potential and current Second Life users. Second Life is a 3D virtual world developed by Linden Lab, full of user-created content that can be explored, sold, purchased, and shared. The project specifically is working on connecting existing and potential users with relevant and engaging content in Second Life. Key components of this project include identifying content that Second Life users would deem relevant to their interests and developing an effective way of making users aware of this content.
The team focused on understanding the fundamental interactions between the physician and endoscopic instruments that result in successful surgeries. The primary objective was to make gaining and maintaining access to the biliary duct easier for the physician. To accomplish this objective, the team explored three key areas of ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography): equipment, procedures and training. The final concepts developed by the team show the feasibility of a new class of biliary access tools. They also produced scale-model, working prototypes for evaluation by physicians.