Designation: A.R.T.I
Artificial – Robotic – Terrestrial – Intelligence
A.R.T.I is the name we have been giving to all of our robots for years. Recently however we redesignated all of our builds, and so now, almost all of our land based, autonomously driven robots are A.R.T.I. variants. At the time of writing we now have five different A.R.T.I robots as we play with different chassis styles and components. More are definitely expected soon and we want to start giving them puzzles to solve.
We also generally give all of our A.R.T.I robots Welsh names to honour where they have been built (North Wales). On each of the pages referring to the individual robots we have given their A.R.T.I designation number, their name (and the meaning of the name), and as much related spec as we can. This will continue to evolve.
Our A.R.T.I robots are usually powered by a 9.6v battery for the main drive circuit, and usually have an Arduino of some variation to do the computing, while we use an L298N motor driver to control our drive. If the robot has an LCD screen and/or LED lights, we will usually use a separate Arduino, powered by a separate 9v PP3 battery. Both circuits are switched at the back of the robot. An A.R.T.I can be 2WD, 4WD or tracked robot, but they need to be small, autonomous ground vehicles. We are not too strict about what autonomous function they perform or how they perform it, or what devices they use to navigate obstacles/follow (Ultrasonic, LiDAR etc).
These robots are built for our home education, to be able to demonstrate them to people and most importantly, because they are great fun! They offer a perfect opportunity to build a robot that has its own emerging character, using very simple (often very similar), components, that can be interacted with afterwards. These robots are useful to teach the planning, prototyping, building and coding side of robotics, but they are also great just for inspiring young people to engage with robotics and engineering.
Please use our contact form if you have any questions about out A.R.T.I robots.