robotics

Hi this is the part of school that enters robotics. The challenge that me and my friend Mikhail's robot is to do is to collect lunar regolith. Our robots design includes first a drill that failed and second a bucket which succeeded.

My research is of collecting lunar regolith (which is in simple words is moon dirt) and we are studying the Artemis mission. Lunar regolith is a collection of particles of dust, soil, and broken rock, with other materials found here on Earth. But this same basic material can be found in other environments as well, including the Moon, Mars, and other planets, and even asteroids. In the south pole is where this mission takes place. In this area there are a lot of craters but the steepest one is 16 degrees. I learned that the Artemis mission is to send people and rovers to build a camp on the moon to later go to mars with the people. Our robot takes the place of a rover that takes tests in the ground by collecting the lunar regolith.

This is our robot!

This is the robot that me and my friend Mikhail made from scratch.

This is a zoom in view of the front of the robot where the power source and controls are.

On this brick is where we kept the code, started the program, and used the attached sensors.

This is mid build, also before we attached the bucket.

In this stage we were going to add a drill instead of having a bucket which was the thing that made the cut.

This is a picture of the build that supported the first idea, the drill.

The drill was the first idea that failed in the end but the bucket worked.

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This is the robot succeeding in the task.

It took a couple try's for it to work.

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