Project Script 

(Start with everybody lightsaber duelling except Tim and Caleb)

(Tim walks on)

Tim: Kids it’s time to go!!

(everybody walks off except for Info man 2)

Info man 2: Sighs, I wish I could sword fight, but I have no one to fight against!

(Caleb jumps on)

Caleb: Hi! I'm a shouty man, and I’m here to tell you about the new Sword fighting robot!

Info man 2: How did you get here?!

Caleb: Do you have no friends available and want to do sword fighting? Well this robot is for you!

Info man 2: Why are you asking me this question?

Caleb: This is designed for people who are introverted or don't have available friends, so it is just right for you!

Info man 2: What can it do?

(Iain walks on)

Iain: Well our robot, if we were able to, would have AI that would be able to detect the movements of the swords to block them.

Info man 2: Really? That's spectacular!

(Info man 3 brings out models and posters of robot along with rest of Robotanists)

Info man 1: Its arm is able to move around freely, thanks to its 6 degrees of freedom.

Info man 3: These 6 degrees of freedom are the robot's version of the wrist, elbow, shoulder and hip, which allows it to move the sword around like a human would.

Caleb: So a normal human would bend down, move their arm up, twist their hands AND bend at the elbow joint, meaning that the robot would be a worthy adversary when fighting against. 

Info man 1: The sword of the robots and the humans' we want to have fitted with gyro sensors in the hilt, middle and tip of the sword to track where in space it is.

Andrew: This is all well and good, but what about cubing? You seem to have forgotten our plans to have it as the project!

Caleb: We are interested in cubing but in the end we couldn't think of any way to share it.

Info man 3: We couldn't find any other ideas to replace cubing, so we took a revote to see what would work from our existing ideas of hobbies. 

Info man 1: The end result was in favour of sword fighting.

Iain: What about the suggestion that I asked you about because I was away: how would this work and the accessibility of writing stories?

Info man 2: Well, we already decided about the sword fighting project while you were away, and even though it was a good idea, we couldn't change again otherwise we would have nothing. 

Andrew: Originally, our design was supposed to be on a swivel, like a drawbridge.

(Shows judges early drawings of robot poster)

Info man 1: Then we had an idea of using a robotic arm, but had a sword on its tip rather than it being integrated onto the arm itself. 

Info man 3: We then came to our current design, where we have a robotic arm that has a sword on the arm itself with a 3d printed part to connect it. 

Caleb: Doesn't something like this already exist?

Iain: This idea has already been made, but we have made our own version out of our own brains. 

Tim: We wanted to improve on this idea as this robot is quite slow and is very short so it's impractical to fight against.

Tim: The reason why we hadn’t known about others is how we did our project, as we first thought of our topic and idea, then researched and found out that it was already made by other people.  

Info man 3: This company is called Shape Robotics and this robot is called Fable, who have their own website if you are interested to know more about how they made it. 

Iain: While researching, we found out that some students from the University of Washington had also already created a robot that sword fights as well, using pool noodles as swords,  just like we did.

Info man 1: But one major difference between us and them is that they used VR headsets as a gyro sensor.

Tim: And that is how we got to this topic.

Info man 2: What an interesting idea!

Caleb: We also have some iterations of our idea including one where we would use Nintendo switch controllers as a gyro sensor, but we could not make the controllers compatible with the robotic arm.

Andrew: Well, that seems to make sense from your perspective.

Iain: After that we planned out what we would achieve in each meeting, and then we got to work.

Tim: We did multiple test judging sessions where we would say our script, then have some talking with our judge, then get feedback, and improve our script, ideas and research to better fit how we want to score. 

Info man 1: This allowed us the time to be able to create our model and evaluate on our existing idea. 

Andrew: We also reached out to two local fencing Hills Athletic Fencing Club, Penrith Fencing and an experienced fencer, and are pending feedback on our idea.

Info man 3: We have also been documenting all of our progress on a google sites for present and future years as the Robotanists. 

(Give judges QR Code for site)         

Info man 2: Does this contain all of our Core Values activities, Project ideas, Script, Robot Game, Robot Design, and a brief overview of the seasons in which the Robotanists have competed in???

Tim: Of  course it does: this is our way of showing our work to others, so we better have everything in it!

Andrew: By the way, what can we show the judges?

Iain: Well, we have a CAD model of an attachment for the sword, which is a digital design where we made a prototype using a 3d printer. 

Info man 1: This was 3D Printed and then it can go onto the robot using Lego pins, with a cardboard roll as a replica of what could fit on it. 

Info man 3: This will be helpful to others if they are lonely or are naturally introverted people and are interested in sword fighting, where they can practise or fight AI to get better in different circumstances. 

Info man 2: We can show this to the world  using YouTube, Facebook or other social media platforms, which people have been going on more excessively rather than something like in a newspaper. 

Caleb: So in conclusion, I am a shouty man, and I was here to tell you about the new Sword Fighting Robot, which would be revolutionary for others.

Andrew: And we still don't know how he got into the house.