As any rebel fighter knows, loading droids is one of the most time consuming steps in preparing starships for battle with the galactic empire! This is why the rebel alliance has entrusted your team with designing a robotic system to speed up the loading of their new class of spherical-based astromech droids onto starships.
Your robot will be required to load droids quickly and efficiently onto a variety of spacecraft. Your final design will compete head-to-head against designs of competing teams in a droid-loading test arena, to determine which will be used in the battle against the galactic empire!
source: MAE3 website
Zejun (Avery) Bao
William Ngo
Miguel Puzon
The Edward has a drawer to gather droids from the starting area and a raising mechanism so it can deposit those droids in starships of multiple heights.
CAD of "The Edward"
Video of "The Edward"
All teams are encouraged to take videos during the final robot contest and insert them below. Teams can also post a team photo on this page.