Five finalists of the competition announced in late August, will receive an InsectBot Starter Building Kit which will include several components, the core compulsory elements being: ProcessorSensorMotor When designing your InsectBot be sure to consider the above compulsory components and highlight them in your design. Our judging panel will...

WEEK THREE. Meet HexRoach. Be inspired by how our robotics expert got on when he designed and built his version of an InsectBot.

WEEK TWO. What will your InsectBot look like and what are the specific characteristics it will have in order to adapt to the Mars environment?

WEEK ONE. Robots are fascinating! They can look like anything and pretty much do anything you program them to do. Robots are created to do jobs that us humans find too dangerous or boring and some are designed to go underwater, rocky terrain or fly.