Combat Robotics at UTDallas is a student-led competition team focused on providing students with the opportunity to collaborate and compete with like-minded individuals to gain experience and refine their knowledge of designing, building, and programming robots. The organization aims to build and sustain an engaged body of students hoping to expand upon their coursework and gain real-world experience, developing skills such as project management, leadership, teamwork, outreach, finance, and professionalism.
Fundraising Needs/Goals
Goal # 1: $550 for a new 3-pound bot
-Every new bot requires a number of parts just to prototype the robot, manufacture it and then repair it after each battle the bots are put through! Our future project Selbbin, our 3-pound bot, has a projected cost of $550 just to build the robot. A donation amount like that would allow us to prepare to start prototyping another 3-pound for future semesters!
Goal # 2: $1600 a swarm of 32 chess playing robots!
-Another project the team has taken on at the university is working with the makerspace to bring back chess robots! A swarm of robots, 32 in total, to play chess on the big chess boards outside on the chess plaza on campus. This is an expensive project to take on! However, $1600 would allow us to put together the electronics of the bots with ease!
Goal # 3: $3000 to build a 30-pound competition robot
-In bigger goals, the Combat Robotics team would also like to take on ventures for an even bigger 30-pound bot which estimates to be about $3000 to make. This bot would be based on a past project of a previous team here at UTD, blender!
We hope to receive these donations to not only continue teaching and growing our student body about the incredible nature of robots on an educational and professional level, but so that we get closer to our goal of representing robotics at the University on a national level! "
