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HackMTY 2019 Project from Monterrey Dynamics

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ExoAid - Monterrey Dynamics

HackMTY 2019 Project from Monterrey Dynamics - Second Place Winner

About this project

This project was done for HackMTY 2019. It's an exoskeleton that has many uses. The most notorious use scenario can be in the field of medicine. Where a remote user (doctor) can assist the wearer of the exoskeleton in doing medical procedures remotley, which can in the end save a persons life.

How was this project made?

This project is only a prototype. It was built using Arduino for Servo Motor control, a Raspberry Pi to host a web server and stream a webcam over the internet (LAN only). Then a computer with an Oculus Rift was used to recieve and show the stream of the webcam.

Next Steps for this project

This project has a lot of areas of improvement. Increasing the arm's dexterity and precision can be very important things to improve for this project to have a real use case scenario. Also, increasing the strength in the joints so that it can handle more movements and also hold objects and lift them.