By Alexander Fund The design of the foot began with the desire to improve upon the walking motion that a 3 Mobot configuration with a 4×4 snap connector could do. In this new configuration, the feet snap connectors would shift the center of mass from side to side instead of using a third Mobot. To determine an approximate angle for the feet, the center of mass for each Mobot was first assumed to be in the center of each Mobot and the mass influence of the snap connector was i

A tale of adventure and self-discovery at Barobo Inc. By Brian Broderick “Brian, I need you to design a new wheel for the Mobot.” Graham, founder and head engineer of Barobo, went on to explain that the new wheel model would have to interface well with both carpeted and smooth surfaces, in addition to being robust enough to survive the frequent drops and bumps that occur in the classroom environment. These were my first real design problems of my first real project at my firs