The article "This soft
robotic gripper can screw in your light bulbs for you" introduces how in
2017, a team of engineers at the University of California San Diego designed
and built a soft robotic grip and its features. The soft robotic gripper can
"pick up and manipulate objects without needing to see them and needing to
be trained." It has three fingers made of pneumatic chambers with many
degrees of freedom allowing manipulation of the held object. A smart sensing
skin made of silicon rubber with embedded sensors made of conducting carbon
nanotubes covers each of these three fingers. The sensing skin records and
detects the nanotubes conductivity changes as the fingers bend. The data is
then processed by the control board, which then creates a 3D model of the
object the gripper is manipulating.
When I saw the module "Effective Communications", I thought to myself “What is the point of this module? I can already communicate effectively with my peers.” However, when professor Brad started going through the content, I realized that I did not know much. There are so many aspects of communicating that are often overlooked. From the words that we speak to our body language to how we type in our emails, there was so much that I was doing wrong. Having eye contact and proper posture can make a big difference in how the audience perceives us in a presentation. I felt that constant peer reviewing and peer feedback make us critique each other’s work and this helps us spot mistakes in our own work which is a skill that is very underdeveloped. I feel that I was very weak in reviewing my work and making improvements in them, but with the rubrics and guidelines given to us, I felt that it was easier to make improvements. This module has taught me how to communicate with my peers i...
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