Building a kinematic panther statue for Pitt engineering.
ArtBot was a team of ~15 students focused on making an animatronic panther statue to serve within an infotainment kiosk for Pitt’s engineering building. The project was funded by Dean Gerald Holder’s office. I was the project’s co-lead for two years, leading all electromechanical work and also general project administration.
Here is a video recorded the same day we gave a demonstration to Rockwell Automation, a company who partly funded the club’s costs.
This second video is of the arm and spine assemblies actuating, on our path to have realistic panther motion. I personally designed and fabricated the arm and spine assemblies, shown in the below video: