Series 3, Session 4

Smart Robot Challenge and Mini Showcase

Career Spotlight: Warehouse Automation Specialist

Warehouse automation specialists help robots, sensors, and smart systems work together to move goods safely and efficiently.

Today’s Mission

Use your Cyber:bot to complete a smart robot challenge and share your work.

Success Today

By the end of class, your team should be able to:

• complete a robot challenge
• improve your system at least once
• give a short presentation

Today’s Flow

• Launch
• Test your robot
• Complete the challenge
• Mini showcase
• Career video
• Clean up

Main Challenge

Complete the Smart Robot Mission

Your team will:

• get your robot ready
• complete a movement challenge
• add one smart feature
• improve your robot through testing

Steps

1. Get your Cyber:bot and code ready.
2. Test your movement code.
3. Add or use one smart feature.
4. Try the challenge.
5. Fix one problem.
6. Test again.
7. Get ready to present.

Smart Feature Ideas

Choose one:

• shake to start
• button start or stop
• icon before moving
• radio signal
• tilt response

Challenge Ideas

Your teacher may use one challenge or combine a few:

• drive through a taped path
• stop at a target
• send a signal when finished
• respond to a start or stop command
• go around a blocked path

Level Up

If your team is ready, try:

• a second smart feature
• better speed or accuracy
• a smoother path run
• a clearer robot user control

Mini Showcase

Be ready to share:

• what your robot was designed to do
• one problem you solved
• one improvement you made
• how this connects to a real job

Sentence Starters

• Our robot’s job was to…
• One problem we solved was…
• We improved it by…
• This connects to real work because…

Career Video

Watch the short video on the current state of the port.

Clean Up

• save your work
• unplug batteries
• return materials neatly
• leave your space clean

Wrap Up

Today you worked like a robotics team by testing, improving, and explaining a smart system.v