CRAZY BOT

Crazy Bot is a study of how to emulate organic and spontaneous, yet randomised emotion and characteristics in a robot that is rigid where movement is restricted. This study aims to create in a simple 360 servo a specially designed wheel that will allow for the exhibition of character purely using physics and product design knowledge, with the help of 3D printing for rapid prototyping.

 

The wheels were the most important part of this study and a majority of the time spent went into rapid prototyping of it.

The idea is to have 3 points that act as pivots for extended arms to fall into place through the rotation of the wheel such that they exceed the perpendicular line and sticks out from the wheel, causing a disruption to the movement of the wheel.

Type 1.

 

Type 2.

Final prototype