Page 26 - Movement Challenge

When you begin to think about a design plan for a robot, you will begin in much the same
way. First, you have to know the functionality—what do you want the robot to do? In this
case, we want the robot to help us collect recycling. It has to travel around the school, and
pick things up, so you need to think about the spaces it is going to travel in and how those
hallways and rooms connect to each other. Next, we can think about the many ways to map
a path around your school—using sketches or lists to show your ideas helps others that you
work with to see and better understand your thinking. Your group might take ideas from
several plans and put them together into one. Then, when your group decides on a design
plan, you can create the blueprint—the specific instructions that you want the robot to follow.