Section outline

  • Lesson Goal: Explore robots built for extreme sizes, speeds, or environments, and learn how physical laws and harsh conditions create special challenges for robot design.

    • Micro-Topic 1: Legged Robots and Extreme Mobility (Goal: Understand why robots with legs (bipedal or quadrupedal) are an extreme engineering challenge and how they compare to wheeled robots in difficulty.)

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    • Micro-Topic 2: Scaling – Giant vs. Tiny Robots (Goal: Learn how extremely large or extremely small robots face problems due to the square-cube law and other scaling issues – e.g. giant robots risk collapsing under their weight, while micro-robots struggle with power and strength.)

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    • Micro-Topic 3: Robots in Harsh Environments (Goal: Discover how robots operate in extreme environments where humans can’t easily go – like disaster sites, deep oceans, volcanoes, or nuclear accident sites – and what special features they need to survive there.)

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