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Filament Games
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RoboEngineers is an immersive VR sandbox that offers players an accessible, engaging inroad to the world of robotics and mechanical engineering. As an open-ended robotics sandbox experience, RoboEngineers will afford players the ability to form hypotheses, build robots, test, and iterate, mirroring the processes of project-based robotics and maker programs.
In addition to robot construction, RoboEngineers also offers “challenge courses” that test players’ ability to build to specification. Each course will require a different physics-based challenge for which a capable robot must be constructed. For example, a course might require players to navigate a set of stationary obstacles and then place a cube on a pressure plate, requiring a robot with maneuverability and the ability to pick up, transport, and place objects. This serves as an abstraction of the underlying dynamics of engineering design; that is, identifying a problem and developing a solution engineered specifically to that problem.
15 and up
As an open-ended sandbox, players are encouraged to experiment with components and robot construction. Learning is not explicitly measured but rather is represented through the successful function of the designed robot.
