Question: how do you make the robots?

Aron Kisdi answered on 14 Mar 2014:

It is fairly simple, lets see if I manage it under 10 steps:

1) locomotion (legs): do you want a robot with wheels, tracks or maybe legs. How many? There are also special ways like snake-like, swimming, flying, jumping or even hovercraft.
2) How big do you want the robot to be. Anything is possible from very large to very small.
3) power: you will need motors to move your wheels, legs or other things picked in step 1. You will also need some batteries.
4) sensors (eyes and ears): the robot need to be able to sense the environment surrounding it. For example you can have cameras, so the robot can see, microphones so it can hear and many other sensors.
5) actuators (the arms): the robot might want to interact with the environment, your robot can have arms, drills, lasers and many other things to do this
6) computer (the brain): your robot will need to be able to do things by itself. Therefore we need a computer on the robot. Computers come in many sizes and functionalities. For example your mobile phone is a computer! But computers can be as small as penny coin or even smaller
7) programing: the computer will have to software, this defines what the robot does, how it uses its sensors and actuators, what decisions it makes. You can think of it as the mind or personality of the robot. It can be really challenging but fun to work on the program for a robot and.
8) test it! need to do a lot of test to make sure it works in the way you want it to work
9) name it!
10) done! you have a robot.