AutoFeed [automated lab animal feeder]

Canada is one of the most automated countries in the world. In all industries, Canadians are consistently being relieved of doing routine tasks as automation takes over. This is a major component to what makes Canada a first-world country and separates us from the rest of the world. At Optimaus, we wish to further progress the automation movement in the laboratory research industry. In research environments, people who are highly educated are sometimes forced to do mundane tasks when a simple solution of automation could save many manhours. Optimaus wishes to automate the feeding of rodents in an SFU lab. At irregular intervals, students are currently required to enter the labs in the middle of the night to administer food for research purposes. Our project, AutoFeed, will automatically feed the rats in order to relieve the students from coming to the lab at awkward times of the day or night. Our product will do something known as temporal restriction: a research technique that involves feeding the rats for a given amount of time then removing food entirely. Therefore, we have made the retraction of food a priority to achieve satisfied clients.