Product Design Challenge
Challenge Summary
Design and build a VEX Robot that can do a household chore or activity that would be considered to be a necessity, convenience or entertainment.
Requirements:
- The standard Bill of Materials (BOM) form provided as part of the Product Design Challenge will be completed to include a full list of the specific parts, quantities and cost required to build the robot.
- Written description, no more than 500 words long
- 1-3 images showing the completed robot
- YouTube video (up to 60 seconds long)
Prize(s):
- 1st: 2009 VEX Robotics Product Design Award, 1 VEX Robotics Classroom Lab Kit, Autodesk Software Package, Automatic Team Qualification for the 2010 VRC World Championship
- 2nd: 1 VEX Dual Control Starter Bundle, Autodesk Software Package
- 3rd: 1 VEX Protobot Robot Kit, Autodesk Software Package
Challenge Opens:
12-15-2008 12:00 AMChallenge Deadline:
04-09-2009 11:59 PMVoting Ends:
04-23-2009 11:59 PMChallenge Details
To be eligible to become a finalist, submissions and robots must meet the following four criteria:
Judging
Submissions will be showcased on the RobotEvents.com Online Challenge website and will be scored by the viewing community. Submissions will be judged on a 50-point scale with the following breakdown:
- Include written description that explains the purpose of the robot, what it does, how it works and how its function would make it a useful household item.
- Include Bill of Materials (BOM) listing all the parts required to build the robot and its total retail cost
- 1 to 3 pictures showing the completed robot
- Include short video that shows a built and functional robot accomplishing its stated design goal
Judging
Submissions will be showcased on the RobotEvents.com Online Challenge website and will be scored by the viewing community. Submissions will be judged on a 50-point scale with the following breakdown:
- up to 5 points for a detailed and completed BOM
- up to 10 points for the written description based on effective communication, etc.
- up to 35 points for the robot construction and video demonstration
- Quality of the pictures and video - is the robot presented well, is it appealing and/or interesting, does it appear to be well fabricated (5 pts)
- Level of safety and reliability incorporated into design and finished robot (5 pts)
- Robot Concept (10 points)
- To what degree does the voter feel that the robot function addressed one of the three desired results of the challenge (necessity, convenience or entertainment)
- Performance (15 points)
- How well does the robot perform the function it was designed for
- The community voting will determine 8 of the 10 finalists to make the final round of judging. 2 additional submissions chosen by the VEX Advisory Councils and Innovation First engineers. The 10 finalist submissions will then be scored with a weighted system including the community voting scores, scores given by the VEX Robotics Advisory Councils and scores given by IFI engineers. The combined scores of the judging panel will determine the 2009 Product Design Challenge winners.
- Quality of the pictures and video - is the robot presented well, is it appealing and/or interesting, does it appear to be well fabricated (5 pts)
Challenge Winners
Purple McSquiggets
1st Place
Brother Bugger 3000
2nd Place
VEXetable Chopper
3rd Place
Challenge Entries
Envirobot Recycler
Trashbot 1899
Vex All-Terrain Drink Delivery
Sweepy Bot
PuP_MateV2
RoboMaid
Sweep Bot
Vex cleaner
Jr. Devil Dawgs team 549 Mop-O-Matic
Vex Gallon Bot!
Cooler Bot
The V.D.C 3000
Mini Trash Truck Dumper
Three Wheel Holonomic
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