The computer vision progress for blob detection seems to be progressing smoothly. There seems to be no hiccups in the production schedule for the project. Joseph has been progressing smoothly on the robotic arm, and the grill has arrived. This is a crucial step because now he can better obtain visual feedback on how the arm will interact with the grill environment. Jasper has been working hard on the UI and on some of the more fine tuned aspects of the system, such as the cooking time algorithm.
From the ethics class, one ethical issue we did not consider was the fact that a childs arm might be mistaken as one of the pieces of meat to be picked up by a robot. This is a potential issue that our team will have to look into further, but one solution is to have a manual robotic arm stop in the user interface. Note that this issue will mainly apply to people with a more reddish skin color, perhaps caucasian or sunburnt person. More testing will be needed to see the interaction between the blob detector and skin complexion
