Cross-posted from the A360 blog- your designs and renderings could help build the robot of the future!
Puny humans, your sports are boring. We, the robots of the future, were not impressed by your “Super” Bowl this month. In the future, all truly terrible 2nd and goal offensive plays are executed perfectly by 15 ft robot gladiators who throw within 3 mm precision at speeds approaching the speed of sound. Footballs are made from “non-deflating” 50lbs of solid steel. “Beastmode” is literally a dial setting. Enough though about American human football. Let’s talk about you designing the future of sports!
Our friends at Megabots are extremely serious about helping the future of sports be epic - and we're serious about helping teams share and collaborate on their designs. All month we're running a contest alongside Megabots to help get giant fighting robots one step closer to reality. Create awesome designs, and collaborate with your team using A360! There are TWO CHALLENGES - each winning entry gets $2500 cash! Also, the winning designs will be created and shown at the 2015 MakerFaire in San Francisco!
Challenge #1: Design a robot. Your task is to design a robotic exoskeleton to fit over top of a modified HR-0S5 Humanoid Research Platform robot. Don’t worry about how to make it. Just design it to be exceptional. For the creative types this should be right in your wheel house. We’re going to build the best two.
Challenge #2: Engineer Megabot’s left arm cannon. The right arm fires a softball sized paintball pellet. You need to come up with something even better!
For full contest details, go to: http://autodesk360.com/megabot
Be sure to sign up for A360 at the start - upload your designs, share with others on your team, and ask them to comment and collaborate with you on your project. Also, add our judges ([email protected]) so we can see your final!
Go sign up! Reach out to us in the comments if you have any questions.
We can't wait to see what you come up with!
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