Cove
A seven-degree-of-freedom robotic arm with a three-foot reach, built by a student robotics club to make advanced robotic systems more interactive and accessible.
JACK CAPPO
Mechanical engineer and designer
Selected projects. Industrial design, mechanical design, prototyping, machining and fabrication.
Burl
An adaptive shelf whose 150+ spring-loaded pins conform around whatever is pressed into it, holding objects in almost any orientation.
Scrambler
A passive, sensor-free hand and a trained climbing policy that let a humanoid robot scramble up steep, icy terrain on all four limbs.
ID-0
A mobile robot that designs, 3D-prints and fits its own gripper when it meets an object it can't hold.
Optomechanical design. Systems where the mechanical architecture decides the quality of the optical measurement.
Blood analyzer
A low-cost absorbance-based testing system: an integrating sphere shares each LED wavelength across three channels, and a CMOS sensor replaces a spectrometer.
Soil analyzer
A benchtop optical measurement setup built around adjustability: precision stages, translating lens barrels, and a rotatable soil capsule.
Free-space laserIn progress
A benchtop free-space optical assembly.
