{"id":8365,"date":"2016-08-05T10:36:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T14:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=8365"},"modified":"2016-08-05T10:40:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T14:40:14","slug":"solidworks-entrepreneur-robotical-learning-robotics-made-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2016\/08\/solidworks-entrepreneur-robotical-learning-robotics-made-easy.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Entrepreneur: Robotical &#8211;  Learning Robotics Made Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8375\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Marty-Programming-615x376.jpg\" alt=\"Marty Programming\" width=\"615\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Marty-Programming-615x376.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Marty-Programming-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Marty-Programming-768x469.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Marty-Programming-728x445.jpg 728w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Marty-Programming.jpg 1445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marty by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robotical.io\/\">Robotical \u00a0<\/a>is a little walking robot designed to be an easy to use and friendly introduction to the world of robotics, as well as a great platform for makers and educators. WiFi enabled, programmable in commonly used languages including Scratch and Python, and even can be customized with 3D printed parts.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VyP5-Q01KC0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Marty provides an engaging way to get into engineering and programming. Developed by <strong>Alexander Enoch<\/strong> as a side project during his PhD, Marty has a unique leg design which reduces the number of motors required to make a robot that can walk, turn, dance, and even kick a ball.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8376\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/The-Field-with-Marty-and-Robotics-615x436.jpg\" alt=\"The Field with Marty and Robotics\" width=\"615\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/The-Field-with-Marty-and-Robotics-615x436.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/The-Field-with-Marty-and-Robotics-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/The-Field-with-Marty-and-Robotics-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/The-Field-with-Marty-and-Robotics-728x516.jpg 728w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/The-Field-with-Marty-and-Robotics.jpg 1193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This makes Marty lower cost, easier to use, and his battery last longer. He&#8217;s also got an expressive face thanks to his moving eyebrows!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8381\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-and-Marty-615x460.jpg\" alt=\"SOLIDWORKS and Marty\" width=\"615\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-and-Marty-615x460.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-and-Marty-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-and-Marty-728x545.jpg 728w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-and-Marty.jpg 762w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alexander used SOLIDWORKS\u00a0during his\u00a0Masters at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hw.ac.uk\/\">Heriot-Watt University<\/a>, and then extensively throughout his\u00a0PhD at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/\">University of Edinburgh<\/a>. \u00a0While preforming research in designing and building walking robots, Alexander began developing Marty for his nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robotical.io\/\">Robotical<\/a>, Marty, and Alexander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robotical.io\/\">here<\/a>. \u00a0Marty has just launched\u00a0a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/marty-the-robot-education#\/\">Indiegogo <\/a>campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Robotical is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/communities\/SOLIDWORKS-for-Entrepreneurs.htm\">SOLIDWORKS Entrepreneur program<\/a>. \u00a0Marie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marty by Robotical \u00a0is a little walking robot designed to be an easy to use and friendly introduction to the world of robotics, as well as a great platform for makers and educators. WiFi enabled, programmable in commonly used languages<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2016\/08\/solidworks-entrepreneur-robotical-learning-robotics-made-easy.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5491,5492,5683,4015,5219],"tags":[5493,5814,5815,4447,3931],"class_list":["post-8365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-stories","category-design-2","category-entrepreneurs","category-mechanical-engineering","category-robotics-2","tag-entrepreneur","tag-marty","tag-robotical","tag-robotics","tag-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8382,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365\/revisions\/8382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}