Robotics Weekly Review

What are manipulators?

• Facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations.

• Is a mechanism designed to manipulate an object in order to accomplish a task.

• Someone who uses someone else

• Has no power source or motor, can push or pull or gather items.

What is an example of a passive manipulator?

• Plow

• Robot arm

• Robot claw

What part is this?

• Motor

• Brain

• Battery

How do you know the wheel is not correctly on?

• It’s loose or the robot doesn’t go

• It’s never on wrong

• It makes a weird noise

A machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer.

• Robot

• Operartor

• Sensor

• Autonomous

What is an intake?

• Facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations.

• consists of two motors that are going to function as if they are one device

• the rate at which work is done

• an active manipulator that is a mechanism that can gather, pull in, push out, or otherwise retrieve objects

Facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations.

What are some considerations when designing an intake?

• The size of the object you are collecting

• The shape of the object you are collecting

• The number of objects you are collecting

• The weight of the objects you are collecting

What makes an effective manipulator?

• Thinking about how the object is meant to be moved.

• If you are done building the fastest

• If you have the coolest looking robot

True or False: When building an effective manipulator you have to take the weight of the object you're moving into consideration.

• True

• False