{"id":14891,"date":"2026-06-18T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2026\/next-generation-automated-elastomeric-polishing\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:04:53","slug":"next-generation-automated-elastomeric-polishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2026\/next-generation-automated-elastomeric-polishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Next-Generation Automated Elastomeric Polishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading project-sponsor-dept-year\"><span class=\"project-sponsor\">Project M\u00f6bius<\/span> <span class=\"project-dept-year\">Engineering, 2025\u201326<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"project-team\">\n<p><strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Qimin Yang<br>\n<strong>Students(s):<\/strong> Josaphat Ngoga (TL-S), Vikram Krishna (TL-F), Isaiah Jeter, Emmett Stralka, Ken Tu (S), Christian Wu (S), Sebastian Heredia (F), Diego Weiss (F)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"project-abstract\">Compression molding enables the efficient production of elastomeric components; however, the resulting surfaces require a labor- and time-intensive polishing process to meet quality and cosmetic standards. The Project M\u00f6bius Clinic team was tasked with evaluating the feasibility of automated elastomeric polishing as an alternative to the industry\u2019s current manual processes. By integrating a six-axis robotic arm with custom-fabricated hardware and software, the team has developed a solution to improve part quality beyond existing standards while maintaining high yield and minimizing cycle time.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project M\u00f6bius Engineering, 2025\u201326 Advisor(s): Qimin Yang Students(s): Josaphat Ngoga (TL-S), Vikram Krishna (TL-F), Isaiah Jeter, Emmett Stralka, Ken Tu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[771],"class_list":["post-14891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","tag-project-mobius"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14951,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891\/revisions\/14951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}