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Robot Construction Ideas

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2009 Robotics Competition and Exhibition

Register your interest by July 1st!

although actual events are in August.

Open to primary, intermediate, and secondary students as well as the general public.

Subject to sufficient entries being received, it will be held Sunday August 2nd from 11am to 3pm at Inglewood High School. Robots could also be entries for the Science and Technology Fair the next day!.

Download Rules and Conditions OR Entry Forms OR advertising posters.

Contact Inlgewood High School for a robotics/electronics workshops;

Racing bots (fastest on a straight track)
Budget bots (under $100 but with the as many abilities as possible)
Celebrity bots (best mock-up of a famous robot from TV or film)

"Robotics is a use of a wide range of technologies. In order to build a robot you must also build power supplies, motors and gears for motion, sensors and if wanted design Artificial Intelligence.

The term robot originates from the Czech word robota, meaning "compulsory labour." It was first used in the 1921 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by the Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. The word robot has been used since to refer to a machine that performs work to assist people or work that humans find difficult or undesirable. The concept of automated machines dates to antiquity with myths of mechanical beings brought to life. Automata, or manlike machines, also appeared in the clockwork figures of medieval churches, and 18th-century watchmakers were famous for their clever mechanical creatures. The robots that you and I know today have only been around for the last 30 years"

Taken from Jared Broad's ALIS report, 1998.

Robot Plans

Way back in 1998, when only a Year 10 (Form Four) student, NRG student Jared Broad designed ALIS....a modern day version of the famous Lost in Space B9 robot.

Download his plans and background report...see the thinking and planning that goes into building ANY robot...(in Plans in PDF format).

Nowadays Jared has a degree in Biophysics and combines Computing, Electronics and Biology expertise to carry out ground-breaking research...

Inglewood High School Year 9 Mathematics students

Can we build a Terminator? READ MORE HERE...

Robot Construction Ideas

Excellent service and competitive prices are why Mailtronics components have been used for many years by Nexus students.

2009 Robotics Competition and Exhibition

Robot Plans

Inglewood High School Year 9 Mathematics students