This was the Fall 2018 project for the first of the two senior design classes (ME366J and K) that mechanical engineering students in the Cockrell school must take. The Fall 2018 project was to create a semi-autonomous shopping cart that would follow the user around without the user interacting with the cart using their hands. This would enable users more flexibility while shopping and enable them to use their hands for other tasks like holding a cellphone or pushing a stroller around. This particular example was donated to the space and was built within itour studios and then donated back. The project was supervised by Dr. Carolyn Seepersad and created by Nicholas Fuselier, Amber Chen, Samuel Bar, Daniel Pousset, John McAnnally, and Emanuel Okeke.
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