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Your mission is to construct robots which can successfully collect the precious golden cubes scattered about a variety of hostile zones. Robots must be able to navigate their way around each zone to collect the gold cubes while at the same time avoiding hazards and making sure they've enough energy by periodically recharging or refuelling.
Here's what to do...

1.Choose a zone for which you'd like to build the optimal robot. We suggest you start with one of the pre-set zones.

choose a zone screen
2.Study the hazards and obstacles in the zone to see what your robot will have to deal with. Now, construct a robot capable of collecting all the gold cubes without running out of energy or suffering too much damage. You should choose sensors to enable the robot to detect hazards and energy sources, a means of powering the robot, a form of mobility appropriate to the zone surface and finally, choose a construction material to minimise damage to the robot or make it more energy efficient.
Click to find out more about sensors, POWER, MOBILITY and MATERIALS.

construct a robot screen
3.Try your robot in the Test Zone. If you haven't designed your robot with the right components, it may run out of energy, sustain too much damage or run out of time in which case you can return to the Robot Constuctor to change the design and try again.

test your robot screen


4.When you've mastered all of the pre-set zones, you can build new zones or edit existing ones from within the Zones screen. New zones can be saved to your own computer, or if you decide to publish your zone it could be made available for others around the world to download.



build your own zone screen


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