The 12th Annual UBC Engineering Physics Robot Competition pits 15 student teams’ robots that must grab and place wooden blocks into stacks of up to five high without any human control.
For details on the competition and attending the event, head to the Physics 253 Competition Website
At UBC Engineering Physics’ in-house prototyping facility, the students drew use on electronics tools, mechanimechanical fabrication devicescs and computer programs to design and build a fully functional, autonomous “Build-bot” prototype within five weeks.
They Students have access to used tools common to the robotics industry, including 3-D printing to manufacture critical plastic pieces for their robots, laser cutting to fabricate structures in plastic and wood and waterjet cutting to shape sheet metal for the robot body.
Since 2001, more than 500 UBC Engineering Physics students have taken this hands-on prototyping challenge as part of their academic program with previous competitions such as Rescue-bots, Hockey-bots, Doctor-bots and Police-Bots.