“If you pull the right strings, A puppet will dance any way you desire.” Robots are artificial intelligent machines made to do whatever we wish to. Why not make them do as we want using a traditional approach instead of a technical one. Let’s create a personalized movable jumping jack robotic puppets to play with or Arthur decorate our rooms.
Introduction:
A puppet is a figure that can be moved by a person, usually for a performance of some kind. The figure can be of a person, an animal, an object, or any kind of creature. A robot is a machine that does tasks without the help of a person. So, a robotic puppet together is a puppet looking like a robot which is handled by humans.
Requirements
Different Colors of Cardboard
Split Pins
Black marker
Thread and Needle
Glue and Scissors
Steps:
To make the robot’s body, cut the cardboard into different shapes and sizes such as squares, triangles, circles
Assemble the shapes to create your kind of robotic puppet
Cut out the limbs of the robot
Attach them to the body using split pins
Thread the backside of the limbs loosely to a string
If you want to hang the puppet, attach a string on the head as a hook as well
Jumping Jack Robotic Puppet is ready!!!
Learning Opportunity:
Puppets have entertained the world for a long time
Puppets were used through the ages for ritual and religious presentations, for education, and for entertainment
They appeared in all corners of the world long before human beings could write
People who handle puppets are called puppeteers
Most have the perception that robots are machines that look and act like people
But actually, robots do only what a person has built them to do
It is designed to make our work easier and mechanical, to reduce human efforts