Robotics playground

Creating engineering solutions that are inspired by biology requires careful analysis of the structure-function relationships found in nature. Students watched this video () to learn about Biomimicry, and then each chose an animal to research. They studied the animal’s components that allow it to move, and then thought about how to recreate using the SPIKE Prime system. Replicating the movement with the robot could be done just using the Default Program (Heart Function) or, if students wanted to explore coding, some simple programming control. Students had one week to complete this assignment.

As a first robotics (robot controlled movement) activity, this doesn’t require any programming and can be done just with the Default Program (Heart Function) on the SPIKE Prime Hub. This was done as an in-class activity over 1/2 hour.