Design Challenge - Compound Robot
Situation: It is predicted that robots will take over 30 percent of jobs now held by humans by the year 2025. That’s three human jobs lost for every 10 people! The year 2025 might still be a few years off, but these robots are currently in the early stages of development and are even being put into the workplace.
Problem & Career Focus: You will work as a mechanical engineer to design and build a compound machine to take over a job currently held by a human in your school cafeteria. You must be able to describe the opportunity cost of this change.
Problem & Career Focus: You will work as a mechanical engineer to design and build a compound machine to take over a job currently held by a human in your school cafeteria. You must be able to describe the opportunity cost of this change.
Ask and ResearchWatch the following video to see how machines are taking over jobs currently done by humans.
Things to Consider:
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Imagine
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BuildUsing the design brief template, check off each criteria and constraint as it is met.
Build your design. |
Test/Evaluate |
Share |
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Present designs to class.
The teacher will evaluate the student work using the iSTEM rubric. |