Prosthetic Design Task

Your teams mission, if you choose to accept it (you dont have a choice) is to
design a robot to solve the problem your group has already defined about prosthetics.
The robot must complete a simple action that would be required in a sport or physical
activity of your choice. This robot will be used as a base to create a prosthetic for
people who would not be able to, or would otherwise have great difficulty in performing
the action. Your group will be using Lego Mindstorm kits to design, build, and test the
robot. Use the research you have conducted about human anatomy to inform your
prosthetics prototype. It must be able to accomplish a real life task if you want it to be
used as a base for use as a prosthetic.
This robot will be presented to the rest of your colleagues (classmates) to show
how it will be able to perform its assigned action(s). They will critique and assess your
robot based on the rubric provided. You will then have time to fix your robot based on
the critique.
Your team must also provide a rationale of at least one page explaining why you
have chosen the action that your robot is performing, and for what sport or activity. The
rationale must also explain what bones and muscles in the human body the robot would
be replacing if it were to be used as a prosthetic, and how efficiently the robot is at
mimicking the action. Your group must also explain whether your robot has limitations
or advantages in relation to the human body part it is designed to replace.
(please note that this robot should be designed as a future prosthetic, and as such must
move according to how the human body moves.

Rubric for Student Presentation of Prototype

Presentation

Task

Little to no practicality to
task being performed in
relation to the activity
provided

Some practicality to task

being performed in
relation the activity
provided

Practical task that would be

useful or necessary for
activity provided

Essential action being

performed for the activity
provided

Function

Robot does not function as

designed without extensive
human intervention

Robot does successfully

perform task with minimal
human intervention

Robot successfully
performs as designed with
almost no human
intervention

Robot Successfully
performs task as designed
with no human
intervention

Realistic
Movement

Robots movements are

extremely unrealistic with
regard to the human body

Robots movement only

loosely resembles the
human body

Robots movements similar

to how the human body
would move

Robots movements are

very similar to how the
human body would move

Rubric for Student Rationale

Rationale

Reasoning

Reasons for task being

designed for are not given
or well explained

Reasons for task being

designed for are explained
with little detail

Reasons for task being

designed for are explained
in detail

Reasons for task being

designed are explained in
great detail

Muscles
replaced

No or incorrect details in
what muscles the robot
would be replacing or
mimicking

Muscles that the robot is

replacing are given

Muscles that the robot is

replacing are given in detail
to how it substitutes them

Muscles that the robot is

replacing are given in detail
and what parts of the robot
represent which muscle

Bones
replaced

No or incorrect details in
what bones the robot
would be replacing or
mimicking

Bones that the robot is

replacing are given

Bones that the robot is

replacing are given in detail
to how it substitutes them

Bones that the robot is

replacing are given in detail
and what parts of the robot
represent which muscle

Pros and
cons

Little to No considerations
to any advantages or
disadvantages robot may
have in relation to the
human body

Two considerations are

provided about any
advantages or disadvantages
robot may have in relation
to the human body

Three considerations are

provided about any
advantages or disadvantages
robot may have in relation
to the human body

Four or more considerations

are provided about any
advantages or disadvantages
robot may have in relation to
the human body