Shutter is a new robotic arm that I designed and fabricated during my time as a NSF REU researcher with Dr. Marynel Vázquez's lab at Yale University, the Interactive Machines Group. IMG studies fundamental problems in Human-Robot Interaction, and focuses on exploring research directions that can advance human-computer Interaction, robotics and applied machine learning more broadly. They were in need of a new robot that would be stronger and more reliable than the one they were previously working with, while still being compatible with their existing ROS software.