Santa's Workshop Rapid Covid Test Delivery
By: Orlando Hulse, Ray Liu, and Carlos Rivera
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Quintero
Covid-19 has affected the lives of many people and now maintaining social distancing is a major part of our lives. However, there are many situations that occur where that may not be possible. To provide a safer environment for the doctors/researchers that conduct studies/testing of the virus we decided to build a delivery robot that limits face to face interaction. The delivery robot will cut down face to face interaction and go to a specified location following a designated line to receive covid test samples from the patient/doctor. The collected samples will be taken from the patient/doctor and then returned to the designated location, where the lab personnel can unload those samples. The lab personnel can then replace the vial that contains the samples and add new cotton swabs for testing. The robot then returns to the testing site to provide new vials/cotton swabs and collects new test samples.