Brookline-based Beaver Country Day School has been awarded a Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant of $10,000 to create an automated robotic vehicular independence system that can carry up to 50 pounds of secured weight for wheelchair-bound individuals or those needing hands-free help to transport cargo.
The quasi-autonomous device, called JARVIS, which stands for "Just an Automated Robotic Vehicular Independence System," follows users without wires or tethers. School officials said the initial concept came from students who carry laundry, groceries and other items for a wheelchair-bound teacher at Beaver.
JARVIS can be adapted for use in airports or train stations as well.
The school is one of 16 high schools nationwide to be selected as an InvenTeam this year. InvenTeams are teams of high school students, teachers and mentors that receive the grants to invent technological solutions to real-world problems.
Jonathan Butler and Laura Nickerson, science teachers and co-teachers of the school's engineering design class, initiated the InvenTeam application process last spring and attended training at MIT in June to help prepare the final proposal.
The initial prototype will cost upward of $3,000, but InvenTeam members said they are committed to bringing the price of the unit down to under $800.
The InvenTeam will also work with NuVu, a full-time magnet innovation center for middle and high school students and a professional development program for teachers and educators, which will guide students through the development of JARVIS, which is expected to take nine months.
A prototype of JARVIS will be showcased by students at EurekaFest at MIT in June.
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