Imagine someone gave you a sackful of money and told you to build a robot. You'd definitely want it to be the best robot in the world. But how do you go about designing THAT? Armed with your own imagination and some smart research, find out how you can transform a fantasy design into an actual dream product. You'll apply real-world design considerations to your ideas, refining your design to make it workable and achievable as it takes shape.

 

This book is part of a book series called How To Design the Worlds Best .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Hachette Children's Group .

Paul Mason is an experienced freelance writer and editor of a variety of children's information books.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Designing the best ever robot
• 2: Design Brief: What is this robot for?
• 3: Step 1: Sketch a design
• 4: Step 2: Is this robot the right shape?
• 5: Step 3: Design the robot's face
• 6: Step 4: Decide how big the robot should be
• 7: Step 5: Decide how the robot will move about
• 8: Step 6: Help the robot see
• 9: Step 7: Get your robot to pick things up
• 10: Step 8: Get the robot speaking (and listening)
• 11: Step 9: Pick your materials
• 12: Step 10: Customising your robot
• 13: The world's best robot
• 14: Other amazing robots
• 15: Glossary
• 16: Answers to 'Work it out' questions
• 17: Index