Week5:Inception 9/25/2018

The team has been busy with finding interesting topic about the course project. We talked about smart-walker, bill recognition app and finally we decided to assistive robot that can help people fetch stuff. We have been collecting our papers for our literature review and figure out our plans for details.

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