• Question: are they strong

    Asked by padfoot to Siobhan, Ollie, Mateusz, Katie, Iulia on 7 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 7 Mar 2017:

      We can build incredibly strong robots. In fact, that’s one of the reasons we build them 🙂 The strongest that comes to mind for me is the one that unloads the ships in ports all over the world – there is a lot of weight in those crates!

    • Photo: Iulia Motoc

      Iulia Motoc answered on 7 Mar 2017:

      Some robots are very strong, some are not. It really depends on what a robot was designed to do. For example, a robot that was built for assembling things has to be very strong. A robot that is used as an information point and which has no need to lift things, does not need to be strong, so we don’t need to spend money on expensive motors for that.

    • Photo: Katie Pavey

      Katie Pavey answered on 7 Mar 2017:

      Yes our robots are big and strong – the are designed to lift cars.

      Our biggest robot could easily pick up 500kg, that’s about the size of a an average horse or 5 gorillas!

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