Growing up reading Isaac Asimov’s robot series, I always envisioned a future where mobile robots will run around helping humans. Of course, this has not happened, and I realized that there are many difficulties to achieving my dream future-cost, energy use, technical difficulties, etc. Although I did not have any significant experience with robotics, I have always been involved with maker technology, both through reading research and news articles and through making smaller-scale gadgets. So, in my project, I wanted to create a robot that addresses some of the most prominent challenges in robotics.

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