My Bot Totoro was designed and built for Stanford’s Introduction to Mechatronics (ME210) course. The objective was to autonomously navigate a field to deposit game pieces into scoring bins. While there was a robot size limitation at the start of the match, we designed a robot that would passively ‘grow’ so that it could more or less play the game parked in one spot.

I designed and built the passive chute release mechanism on the robot. Our team won the class competition out of 26 teams.

For more info, check out the robot website