I worked with Andy and Hojun to create our abstract, Gantt chart, and presentation. I researched different types of grippers and discovered that using a coffee ground compression based universal gripper would be a great choice for our project https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/universal-jamming-gripper . After iterating through our design, we have decided to scale down our design to ease development and to make our budget becomes more flexible. I also looked into some of the parts we will need and created a bill of materials which will allow us to track our spending https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iNLGrBZjlGDFCUeY08vwm6PxzKUlzAXe793VKTGfH4E/edit?usp=sharing. This week, I hope to help finish our proposal, finalize our requirements, figure out the robot’s motion model, and begin working on a simple simulation to test our motion model.