The summer after my sophomore year, I worked at Elementary Robotics, a startup based in Los Angeles. Elementary Robotics works on improving autonomous quality control of devices in a factory setting by using advanced vision-based AI and inspection robots with 4 degrees of freedom. In order to do this, the company uses their own custom motor drivers and code. This poses a problem, since this means that the actual capabilities of the robots with Elementary’s own code is unknown. In order to remedy this, I designed, prototyped, and tested a motor dynamometer in order to get accurate estimations on how a standard brushless motor would perform using Elementary’s code. Initially, this involved more part sourcing than I had ever previously done, especially since my project was being performed independently and had not been worked on by any full-time engineers before I started work. Additionally, since this was a fully independent project, I learned a lot of electrical engineering theory, as well as hands-on skills. I also programmed several testing scenarios in Python to test the motors at various speeds, and by the end of the summer, I had a working prototype ready for testing.