RoboRuggles: Design of a Combat Robot

With constant access to resources like research papers, LinkedIn, and YouTube videos in the $21^{\text {st }}$ century people are constantly met with images of new and evolving technologies that inspire them to expand their knowledge. An example of this is the TV show BattleBots which inspired this team of students to develop their own 3-pound robot to compete in the National Havoc Robot League (NHRL) in Norwalk, Connecticut against other teams. This paper follows the process in which the team developed a robot, RoboRuggles. The team had a chance to independently work through complex design challenges and use critical thinking skills to select components that met qualifications and constraints of the NHRL robotics competition.