Snackbot

Background:

Human interaction within the movie theater must be significantly reduced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. A solution is needed to eliminate the portion of the movie theater experience in which customers are lined up to interact with the theater staff to order snacks and drinks at the concession stand.

Goals and Objectives: 

As part of the UCI Engineering Conference 2021, our goal is to create a robot that will be able to transport a certain amount of snacks and drinks to customers currently sitting inside the theaters. It will also contain additions such as hand sanitizer dispensers to have guests sanitize their hands before they grab their orders for increased sanitization. Customers will be able to order their snacks and drinks from a device at any point during the movie, and multiple robots will be moving back and forth constantly to quickly and efficiently deliver goods.  We want to make sure that none of the movie experience is compromised, thus we want this robot to be very efficient in delivering all snack and drinks to the customers by navigating its way through obstacles that comes on its way.

UCI Engineering Conference Website: 

https://engineeringconferenceuci.com/

Team Members:

Colby Henderson: colbyah@uci.edu
Jainam Vasa: jvasa@uci.edu

Advisors:

Moatasem Fouda: mafouda@uci.edu