Completed slideshow for our project.
Completed slideshow for our project.
This is our project statement:
The Boxing Robot Project looks ahead to the future, where artificial intelligence is ubiquitous. Instead of people going to the gym, the gym is taken home. Inspired by the movie Real Steel, its purpose is to design a robot that people can spar with at home. This semester, we focus on improving the project in terms of its mechanism, movement, and strength. For mechanism, our project last semester could only move back and forth, doing the simplest punch. However, in this semester, we design a new arm-shoulder system so that it can move along three axes, being able to throw different punches. In terms of movement, we choose to use servos to replace the pneumatic system that we used before. Doing so can make the movements more controllable and accurate, which prevent the robot from destroying itself like it did last semester. Last, as for strength, instead of using the fragile 3D printed materials and cardboard body, we use wood on the majority of the robot, which is firm and can easily take the force as it punches.
Attached are project images & diagrams. There's also a video demonstrating the movement of the arm.
Video and pictures cannot be in the same post, so here's the video