This week the Addtronics team has worked steadily on implementing changes in order to improve the working prototype. Specifically, we have been applying DFT (design for testing) principles in order to make sure we meet the main goal of our scope of work. During our lid test last week, we determined that the arm alone is not able to lift the transformer pad lid. We have since then planned to have the quadruped assist with the lifting motion by rising from a crouching position to a standing position while holding the lid. In preparation to do the combined lifting, we have been testing the quadruped initializing and standing up with the arm mounted. It was crucial to determine the standing up motion was reliable with the additional weight to ensure the quadruped will not roll on its back and damage the electronics and hardware that are mounted as we have seen happen before. After ensuring reliable motion, we moved the mock transformer box outside for testing in a realistic environment. Once lined up and in position, we attempted raising the quadruped but the quadruped was unable to stand entirely. The testing seems to have internally damaged a component of the forward left limb of the quadruped which we are steadily working to fix. Looking forward, we are working on alternate solutions to compensate for the low payload achieved by the arm and examine the reason for the limb damage in order to mitigate it in the future.