GreenBot

During my Second year, SFU announced there is going to be a competition to kick off the sustainable engineering program. tasking us with creating the following robot over the period of three month 

The competition was centred around the design of an 'eco-bot' capable of collecting organic and non-organic waste. During the competition, each robot was tasked with differentiating between objects and avoiding potential obstacles. No more than $300.00 could be spent on materials and teams were encouraged to use recycled materials wherever possible. Additionally, each robot was created with sustainability as one of the key design components.

The problem with divided into three main segments:

1. Navigating the arena

2. Collecting the organic and non-organic waste

3. Sorting the waste into two buckets

we solved the solution and got first place by:

• Designing an eco-bot for a competition that is capable of collecting unsorted waste and tasked to differentiate between objects and avoid potential obstacles on a tight budget, and achieved achieving the first place
• Designing and Fabricating the robot utilizing SolidWorks and Rapid Prototyping Techniques; Sourced components and successfully integrated software and hardware.

We also got recognized by SFU for this great achievement and got a $1800 winning prize, Link to SFU's page here.