Robots help deliver gifts
This year’s Innovation Project required ETH students to develop kit-based robots capable of delivering gifts down the chimneys of model-sized houses. The ten best teams will compete against each other in the final on 17 December.
The Innovation Project is a project-based engineering design course. Bachelor’s degree students studying mechanical engineering go through a production development process in their third semester. They work through all the steps independently starting with the initial idea through to the construction of a fully functioning product. This year the project is a Christmassy one. 550 students in 95 teams have been given the same kit with which to build autonomous robots that have to be able to cover a set route. They have four minutes to deliver five gifts down each of eight chimneys. The robots have to carry out these tasks without any external help – in other words, working entirely on their own. You can find out in the video all about the innovation project’s learning objectives, the amount of work involved and what motivates the students.
Innovation Project 2024 final
Saving Christmas! Ten teams compete against each other in the Innovation Project 2024 final to deliver gifts down the chimneys of model houses with their self-assembled autonomous robots. Which team will navigate the set route fastest and most accurately? Be there and cheer on the Bachelor’s degree students:
Tuesday, 17 December 2024. 3.30–5.30 p.m.
ETH Zentrum, Main Building, main hall