Fall Semester

Week 12: PDR week!

The team continued to make meaningful progress this week as our work shifted further from preliminary investigation into detailed design development and prototyping efforts. Building on insights from recent discussions with Johnson & Johnson, we advanced several parallel tracks of… Read More

Week 11: PID Day!

This week marked steady progress as we continued developing both the mechanical and computer vision components of our wire insertion system. During Prototype Inspection Day, we presented our current design to professors and industry professionals. The feedback we received was… Read More

Week 10: Preparing for Prototype Inspection

Team CORBOTICS has continued to focus on design for fixtures, integration of subsystems, and preparation for testing in anticipation of Prototype Inspection Day. During this week, the team worked to improve the reliability and repeatability of our fixtures, verify our… Read More

Week 9: Rolling Into Motion

Given what we learned from the experts at J&J last week, we’ve adjusted the fundamental goal of our concepts and developed our first version of a holding fixture. We learned exactly what features on the catheter the technicians look for… Read More

Week 7: PDR Practice + J&J site tour!

This week was both exciting and productive for our IPPD team. We had the opportunity to present our Preliminary Design Review (PDR) to the class and receive valuable feedback from our peers and instructors. The feedback session was incredibly useful,… Read More

Week 6: Refining Our Design Path

Week 6 has been a major step forward for Corbotics as we continue shaping our design concepts into tangible ideas. With our research foundation and early sketches in place, we’ve shifted focus toward refining how our system will operate and… Read More

Week 5: Concept Generations

It’s been over a month since our first day of class, and looking back, we’ve made significant progress towards finding a solution.. Week 5 has been about condensing our findings into a Preliminary Design Report, visualizing our ideas with sketches,… Read More

Week 3: Logo Creation

Corbotics Team – Week 3 Update: Hey everyone! Week 3 has been a busy and exciting one for Team 11 (aka Corbotics) as we keep diving deeper into our Johnson & Johnson Bimanual Wire Manipulation project. Here’s a quick look… Read More

Week 2: Meet the Team

Hey Everyone! Our team is very excited to be working on this year’s IPPD project with Johnson & Johnson – Biosense Webster. Our project aims to design and prototype a bimanual wire manipulation tool for micro-assembly. So far this week we… Read More