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Automated machinery is vital for the success in the industrial world. High-quality, cost-effective robotic arms are a key factor in ensuring seamless and efficient operations. Our group, Thunderclaw, decided to build a robotic arm that was derived from an open-source project named “Thor.”
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Thor’s movement is powered by seven stepper motors and one servo motor, which gives the arm an impressive six degrees of freedom. With its advantages in dexterity, efficiency, and precision, our version of Thor will become an essential within the automation industry.
Project Thor
In our market economy, manufacturing, e-commerce, and production companies must continuously develop and ship out products for consumer use. The labor costs to sort the vast quantity of packages daily would amount to a substantial toll against the company's revenue. Nonetheless, there is a solution: Thor is a pre-existing, freely accessible robotic arm that we will be adapting and redesigning to create a prototype involving automatic sortation through the use of an Arduino Mega.
Thor will eliminate potential human error, increases sorting efficiency, and remove human labor cost, while existing as an inexpensive robotic arm. Take a look at the videos and articulation photos below to view our working prototype.
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