Design Your Own Robot:
Visitors' Guide

The Robots Gallery contains an on-line interactive, explanatory materials, and a number of accompanying activities. Although most of these activities are intended to be done in a classroom setting, many could be adapted for individual use.

We suggest you take a brief tour of the Robot Gallery before deciding what you want to do in this gallery.

Be aware that there is a lot here. If you do want to look at everything, you will most likely spend a fair amount of time.

Some of the concepts presented here may seem rather technical or unfamiliar. But don't hesitate to jump in and try the interactives even if you don't understand everything about how they work. You will learn much from just trying these interactives and seeing what happens.

1. Go to Design Your Own Robot: Pre-Activities. This page describes the Design Your Own Robot Interactive and provides background material about the six major characteristics involved in robot design.
2. Go to the Design Your Own Robot interactive. Here, you will have a chance to design and build your own robots, intended to accomplish six specific tasks.
3. After you've finished the Design Your Own Robot interactive, go to the Design Your Own Robot Links page. This page has links to detailed information on robots, robot construction kits and robot competitions. If you are really excited by robots, you might find ways to develop your interest by going to some of these links.
4. After exploring some of these links, come back to Design Your Own Robot: Post-Activities. This page contains questions about the interactive your class has just finished exploring.