This is what our current robot looks like. The claws are still detached and there is no type of breaker mechanism or way of preventing the robot from tipping backward which it unfortunately does often when we manually lift the lifters. It functions quite well other than that one problem which we have lots of time to repair. We are very proud of our robot :), and with the supplies we had we certainly did a very satisfactory job making one from scratch with many of our group members (including me) having never built a robot before.

Programming

                We began the programming for our robot after we had built the main structure in order to test and see how well it would function. This line of code is actually very rudimentary, yet we are not attempting anything too complicated in order to ensure that if one of the group members has to rewrite or add-in anything they would not have too many complications interpreting the code. The commands are only to lift the lifters up and down, open and close the claw, and run the wheels of the robot.  Our main goal ,as of right now, is to actually have a running robot so that we can try and observe how it functions and see if we can observe any problems that might not be obvious from simply looking and moving the parts of the currently immobile robot.