Robotics+Class+2

This lesson, Mr. Emanuele (our robotics teacher) divided us into 5 groups. After dividing us into groups, he gave each group a different robot. We had a man-like robot. We were supposed to figure out how the robot worked, what functions did it have and how to control it. Our robot looked like the picture on the right, looking from the back. It had a torso, which was relatively big; it was then connected to ‘thighs’, which were connected to knees and calves. The robot had a remote control. As we figured, the infrared waves travel from the remote control to the main body (torso), which sends the signal to the limbs. The robot was able to walk forward, backward and sideways. It was able to make a split and then get up (pushing up from the floor using its head), and raise its arms in a strain-the-muscles kind of motion. Both the robot and the control had two ways of setting up the signal, but the robot would only respond if the codes on the robot and the remote control matched. You could control it with the two circular popping-out buttons in the middle of the control. After we finished examining our robots, we had to present them. Other groups had simpler robots that followed light, kept balance on a bumpy surface and detected sound. After we finished the presentations, we had to write the instructions to the use of our robots.