Answered: Questions about the FUTURE Foundation Challenge

[Max-D]

I have two questions.

first:

is there any limit to how the solution is presented? for example: could you have an instruction manual in your proposal to help prove to the customer that they could get it to work with out your expert assistance?
Also:
could you make a proof of concept robot and a design proposal of the final design’ , instead of the whole thing?

second:

from the description:

Build a VEX robot to deliver trophies to award winners at robotics tournament awards presentations. Think of your robot as the helper that makes presenting trophies a fun and exciting part of the awards ceremonies. It is up to you to figure out how this would work, but it should be useful, creative and interesting.

must the solution deliver the trophies, or can it aid in the presentation of them in some other way? (assuming it would actually be helpful)

thanks in advance
Phillip.

[Rick_TYler]

I have two questions.

first:

is there any limit to how the solution is presented? for example: could you have an instruction manual in your proposal to help prove to the customer that they could get it to work with out your expert assistance?
Also:
could you make a proof of concept robot and a design proposal of the final design’ , instead of the whole thing?

second:

from the description:

must the solution deliver the trophies, or can it aid in the presentation of them in some other way? (assuming it would actually be helpful)

thanks in advance
Phillip.

Let’s look at the requirements:

Build a VEX robot to deliver trophies to the winners at robotics tournaments.

The person or group who builds the winning robot has to be willing to sell it to the producers of the VEX Robotics World Championship (for the cost of materials), and that robot may be used to present trophies at the 2014 VEX Robotics World Championship!

The robot needs to be able to deliver any standard VEX Robotics Competition trophy, including the World Championship trophies. The smallest VEX Robotics Competition Trophy is 10" tall, 2.5" deep, and 7" wide (25cm, 6.3cm, 17.5cm) and weighs 19oz (.5kg). The largest is 18" tall, 3.5" deep, 8.5" wide (46cm, 8.9cm, 22cm), and weighs 73oz. (2.1kg).

Create a video of the robot in action posted to YouTube, not more than 3 minutes long. After your 180 seconds of video demonstrating the robot, you should have up to 15 seconds of credits. The credits must be at the end, not the beginning of the video.

The robot should be made of VEX components, with the use of non-VEX components allowed for decorations or for video, sound, cameras, or similar elements not provided by VEX.

You have to build a robot to deliver trophies, produce a video of the robot in action, make it of VEX parts, and be willing to sell the finished robot to the REC Foundation for use at future tournaments. The requirements are pretty simple.

The requirements do not include the requirement that the operator can use the robot without instructions, so including an instruction manual would not be against the rules. It is also not required and will not affect judging.