As part of learning with the BrBots team and with the knowledge acquired with robotics, there are some opportunities to pass our knowledge on to high school students, in addition to motivating them to follow this area. There were also opportunities to participate as a judge in the Brazilian Robotics Olympics.
Brazilian robotics olympics (from Portuguese: Olímpiada Brasileira de Robótica, OBR)
The OBR has two modalities: Practical and Theoretical, which seek to adapt to both the public from schools that already have contact with educational robotics and the public that has never seen robotics. The activities take place through practical competitions (with robots) and theoretical tests throughout Brazil.
Theoretical modality
Tests that address problems in robotics that can be solved using tools and concepts included in the basic school curriculum, such as science, mathematics and languages.
Practical modality
In a hostile disaster environment, a fully autonomous robot developed by a team of students is given a difficult task: to rescue all victims without human interference.
School
The opportunity to teach robotics to elementary and high school students can be challenging but also rewarding. We can take our knowledge in robotics and also learn from young enthusiasts in this field.
To motivate students and young people interested in the area, we developed low-cost robots, which can be seen below.
Low cost hockey robot
Robot hockey is made up of 5-minute matches. These are exciting matches between teams made up of three robots where the only objective is to score as many goals as possible, and for that to happen anything goes: there are no fouls in this game!
Since an exciting sport can bring a great deal of interest, it was important to make a low-cost robot that would bring this idea to schools.
Low cost battle robot
Just like our 1.4 kg battle robot, the idea of the robot for schools is to entertain and teach. So we built a robot that does not cause risks, but shows in an interesting way the possibilities of robotics.
We bring radio-controlled robots to schools to demonstrate the possibilities of robotics in a competition format.
Radio-controlled robots
In the next section you can see a little bit of an event where we took the competition robots from the BrBots team (Sumo category) to a local school.
You could see some of the competitions we participate and our work in the BrBots Instagram.
3D model
A preview of the 3D model of one of the learning robots we built can be seen below.
Development team
Project Summary
- Category: Mobile Robotics
- Start date: July/2017
- End date: December/2018