Six other teachers as well as engineers from the community help students build a robot each spring, which they enter in competitions with other schools.
The main goal of this research was to understand how insect flight works, rather than to build a useful robot.
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Depending on which vehicle it's programmed to build, the robot will reach out to one conveyor belt for the side panels of an Armada or Titan, and another for the side panels of a Quest.
Last month DARPA, the U.S. Defense Department's research agency, invited proposals from robotics experts to build a "chemical robot" made from soft, flexible materials and capable of squeezing through gaps smaller than its regular dimensions.
In order to earn the Badge, a Scout has to design, build, and program a robot to perform a certain task.
The 3D building instructions allow LEGO MINDSTORMS builders to digitally view how the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 components fit together, making it easier to build even the most sophisticated robot.
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Pan's group looked for novel mechanisms and materials to build a true water-striding robot.
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Students learn management and communication skills as they work on teams to design, build, program, and test a robot.
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Of course, this all looks and sounds really scary, but if a 1000 robot-obsessed Japanese scientists haven't been able to build any normal-looking androids this big that don't fall over and don't require a gigantic power backpack of batteries, it's tough to believe that three crafty Bulgarians will do it.
Collectives can also help their members build professional brands faster than individual artists, says Jake Schreier, who directed "Robot and Frank" for Park Pictures.
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The robot is called Momo, and two of them can do the work of the 250 laborers needed to build a 100-megawatt photovoltaic power plant, its creator claims.
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