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.
Team Grill, a local startup company, specializes in the design, production, and decoration of high-end gas grills. What makes these grills special? These bright colored grills showcase the logo of your favorite collegiate or professional sports team with high performance grilling capabilities and user-friendly features such as extendable shelves and concealed control panel. Team Grill’s SCOPE project was twofold: it focused on developing a “child-safe” ambient-temperature design and mass-customization decoration technology. The goal of the “child-safe” technology was to reduce the surface temperature of the grill lid. The second facet of the project developed technology that will allow consumers to order grills with professionally applied customized images. These two projects helped Team Grill expand its brand recognition in the field of high performance grills.
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.