Proposal for Fondue- The Food truck

Objective: Enable in house contactless room service for eatables.

Problem: Keeping up with the current COVID-19 pandemic there is a need for in-home solutions
to enable people to stay together in a contactless way. In a regular household consuming meal has
frequent visits to dining area, living room or even the kitchen. Many of these trips are also just for
tasting freshly cooked meals or even for grabbing a glass of water.

Solution: A robot truck that delivers meals right at the comfort of your room.

Design

1. Of about 2 feet by 1.5 feet in size

2. Having rubber tires for wooden/marble flooring
3. Changeable tray section on the top
4. A section to carry salt ,pepper , dressing and seasonings
5. Has feedback buttons which are embedded in the tray like, dislike voice record for feedback

Prototype Plan

I plan to change to snap fit from screw driven design. This would be easy for the customer to
assemble. First, I plan to get my plastic body 3D printed through our college facilities when the
campus reopens. This means I would be able to utilize the 3D printing and machining tools. There
in the manufacturing cost only the labor cost would be there. I would then assemble the electronics
components along with the code and create the logic for the robot to move. The like and dislike
feedbacks would be manual and a pressed button would indicate the food quality to the chef.
However, the recorded feedback would be integrated into the electronics to play the sound when
pressed again by the chef to hear it out.

Prototype Costing

Total material Number of

Part Mass Quantity needed hours
RIGHT 222.845 2 445.69
BOTTOM 431 1 431
FRONT 316 2 632
1508.69
$754.35 0

TRAY 300 1 300

34.48484848 5
AXLE 213 2 426
LINK 11.6 4 46.4
472.4
2.937095652 5

TIRE 4 128
BRACKET 4 $4
SCREW 1 $13.36
145.36 5
ROBOTIS AX-12A 4 $179.60
COLOR SENSOR 2 $19.80
SHIELD 2 $44
WIRES 1 $13
$256.40 12
Total Labor Cost $675
Total Material Cost $1,193.53
Total Cost $1,868.53

Costs
Cost of 3D printing per
gram $0.50 Carnegie Mellon
Cost of SS 316 0.114949 metalsdepot.com
Cost of 6063- T6 ,ROD SS 0.006217 Grainger.com
Tire ( 2336T661) 32 mcmaster.com
Bracket $1 mcmaster.com
Screw $13.36 mcmaster.com
Cost per hour $25 Research grant
Robotis AX-12 A $44.90 Robotis.com
Color Sensors $9.90 Adafruit.com
Motor shield $22 Arduino.com
Wires $13 Adafruit.com