The Design and Development of Project OVERTIME: Open-source Versatile Experimental Robot for Tendon-driven Instrument Manipulation and Evaluation

Steerable medical instruments are used to reach difficult locations in the body during minimally invasive surgery (MIS). Researching these instruments helps to further improve their performance and reduce their size making them even less invasive. However, developing new technology can be expensive and often complete custom test rigs are build...

Generative AI & Tangible Products: Human-AI Design of 3D-printed Lamps

New generative AI systems can make beautiful pictures, but can they help produce functional products? This graduation project investigated the potential for generative AI to aid the design of functional, 3D-printed lamps. <br/>Two studies were conducted to assess the degree to which AI can measurably improve design outputs. An AI-based software...