Cardinal Gibbons High School

Thomas Ryan Michael Greene

Cassian Farias Kraus

Nicole Carol Allen

Joseph Michael Biersack

Brigitte Noelle Gallagher

Zachary Clayton Naylor

William Michael Meyers

Brett Richard Gallagher

Charles Joseph Kilani

Benjamin James Miranda

Ilam Maya

Gillian Nicole Kearney

Christopher Randall Bain

Oishi Ghosh

Ian Setia

Kristen Glielmi

Grace Ann Eberle

Adam Hamad Malik

Joseph Andrew Milazzo

Kevin Nicolas Haller

John Michael Gebhardt

Ethan James Dominic

William Andrew Mullee

Daniel Thomas Mahon

Grant Christian Ozaki

Ayda Rose Suing

James Francis Gbruoski

Brett Matthew Lopez

Disclosed is a system for controlling a robot via a foot-operable controller. The foot-operable controller includes a grid of large pressure-sensitive tiles that are responsive to being stepped on. Signals from the pressure-sensitive tiles are provided to a controller interface that converts the signals to control messages compatible with existing robot control interfaces, such as a universal serial bus. The foot-operable controller may be used to control various robots, including for example a robot equipped with a claw arm or a robot equipped with a ring launcher.

Foot-operated robot interface

Disclosed is a decontamination robot. The robot includes a decontamination box including at least two arrays of ultraviolet LEDs, the two arrays arranged to irradiate an object placed inside the decontamination box from at least two independent directions, the decontamination box further including an interior surface with at least 90% reflectivity of ultraviolet light. The robot also includes a drivetrain including four swerve-drive units, each swerve-drive unit capable of rotating a wheel on an axis of the wheel and capable of orienting the wheel in a plane defined by the axes of the four wheels of the four swerve-drive units, whereby the four swerve-drive units coordinate to generate translational motion of the decontamination robot on a working surface. The robot also includes a scissor lift capable of raising the decontamination box from a first position to a second position, wherein the scissor lift comprises a plurality of bars connected by a plurality of joints such that the plurality of bars form a series of crosses, and a top plate attached to a top of the decontamination box.

Decontamination robot with swerve drive and scissor lift

Disclosed is a self-lifting robot with multi-jointed arm. The robot includes a multipart housing, a traction drivetrain capable of generating translational and rotational motion of the self-lifting robot on a working surface, and a deployment hook configured to release from a storage hanger, thus depositing the self-lifting robot onto the working surface, and configured to re-attach to the storage hanger, thus lifting the self-lifting robot off of the working surface. The robot also includes a multi jointed arm, and a grabber disposed from a free-rotating wrist joint at a distal end of the multi-jointed arm, and configured to grab, hold, and release one or more target objects.

Self-lifting robot with automatic release and multi-jointed arm

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Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Thomas Ryan Michael Greene