(2s)^P: TWO TIMES SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE

We are (2s)^P, and we are a participant of Robofest 2014 at LTU, Michigan. We started at school level at Canton Charter Academy, received 5th place and People's choice Award at the regional Robofest. Now we are continuing on to the final stage, the world stage. We have been to the World Finals before, as a team in the name of Robot Avengers Legacy. Our team consists of three members: Suhas Das, Pranav Rakkappan, and Sarabeswaran Balamurugan. We are very enthusiastic, and hope to win the World Finals. If you would like to see our video, and is said that it is not able to view, please click"open in new window". Thank You and vote for us for the People's Choice Award.

FOCUS: This robot can help many viruses, an example of this is the Ebola virus in Congo. It is a highly contagious virus that spreads very quickly, doctors helping stop the virus are at risk of getting the viruses themselves. When the doctors want to analyze the blood they take a blood sample from the patient and go to big labs that are far away, but, by the time the patient is cured it would have spread to others. The rate is for every one person healed four more people are infected. This makes Ebola a very highly deadly virus. This is the same with many other viruses around the world, some examples are the Yellow Fever of South America, Malaria of South Asia, and Anthrax of eastern Europe. This will not only stop currently active viruses but it can also help other minor viruses before they become big, and stop viruses before they get too big could save millions of lives. An example is the MERS virus that was just found in Indiana. MERS is a Middle Eastern respiratory disease, it is usually found in Saudi Arabia and was responsible for 371 deaths last year. This was found in Indiana last week. Our robot can go to Indiana before it gets super big.

TECHNOLOGY: We have used many types of technology in our project. The robots are connected via Bluetooth. The Hematology Bot is the master and the Injector Bot is the slave bot. They use the Bluetooth to find when to motion through the stages. Another use we have for Bluetooth is for the Injector Bot to know whether to treat or not. As Shakespeare once said “To treat or not to treat”. We used a tablet and phone to have a wireless video camera stream connected by a wireless hotspot. Doctors can use it to monitor if the robots are functioning correctly or not.

MATH: We used math like measurement, we measured the length of lines, the diameter of turns, light values, and robot lengths. This project took a lot of use of ratios and proportions, we had to calculate the rate of people healed to people infected. We used this data to see how quick our robot should go. We also used the ratio of "people infected:people healthy" We also used this equation to figure out how many lives our robot saves a day, and after a lot of calculations we figured out that this bot saves 1440 lives a day. We also used our knowledge of percents and fractions when making our graph.This is how we used math.

SCIENCE: Our project is focused on the use of science for doctoral use, also known as medical science. One big use of science was to understand was the parts of the blood stream and how the viruses affect them. We first had to learn what a Red Blood Cell(R.B.C.). It is a basic blood cell that carries oxygen throughout the blood stream. Next is White Blood Cells(W.B.C.). It is a blood cell that is an immunity factor that travels through the blood stream. Finally, there are platelets. These are things in the blood stream that clots the blood, protecting the body from blood loss. When the virus attracts the body, it goes into the blood and starts destroying the blood cells, or infecting them. This especially includes infecting the WBC and causing them to reduce their immune capabilities. This is one way of allowing the virus to enter the body and affect the body. We also learned some important virus facts. For example, the Ebola virus comes in long, bacterial strands and is very contagious. It is kind of like a parasite. We also learned about MERS virus, which is in the Middle- East. We learned about stem cells, which hope to incorporate someday into our project so that we can help heal limbs. While doing our project we also did experiments on how to super-freeze objects.