VII. Conclusions and Future Work

To conclude, our design works as intended. We were able to test the grippers capabilities of flipping water bottles.

Future Work

In the future, this design could be built with more robust materials before attaching to a robotic arm for flipping. The design should also add a mounting location to interface with the robotic arm.

In terms of functionality, a button or switch could be implemented to better represent the signal that would trigger the gripper to open, rather than being time based.

More robust testing should be done, to guarantee that the water bottle is able to properly release from the gripper as we had some concerns that the gripper design would hold the bottle too securely.