CNR 2014: Competitions: Tour the Stairs: The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Tour 2014: Motivation

Inspired of the Grand Tours of Cycling which refers to the three major outdoor European professional cycling stage races: Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España, the end goal of Tour the Stairs: The LEGO MINDSTORMS Tour is to create an edutainment robot which can carry water and snacks, and at the same time are able to navigate autonomously in both a "flat" (the floors) & "mountainous" (the stairs) terrain, plus to get the robot through all the challenges it shall solve on its road during an entire Tour the Stairs.

Motivation:
The Grand Tours of Cycling collects every year many people next to the roads the riders are passing. They're looking forward to the drama and to watch some of the big stars of cycling, when they at the same time is having fun after been waiting for hours.

In a similar way Tour the Stairs: The LEGO MINDSTORMS Tour is seeking to be able to create some of the same kind of public behaviour when the robots are on "the roads" like in a big shopping mall or concept store, so the consumers can be entertained in a fun way when they're out shopping. To make Tour the Stairs succesfull in this context it is therefore necesary to have a focus on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) and which kinds of parameters that creates a good drama in a competition.

Tour the Stairs: The LEGO MINDSTORMS Tour is also thought to inspire teachers at the schools who would like to visualize maths, physics, biology, geography, history and culture for their pupils / students by integrating different kind of tasks which is inspired by various elements of the Grand Tours of Cycling.

[image source: LEGO Group]
[source: Vive Les Robots!]

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"That's one small step for a LEGO MINDSTORMS robot, one giant leap for robokind."

Tour the Stairs 2014: The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Tour
The 26-27 November the first edition of Tour the Stairs 2014: The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Tour will take place during the Cafe Neu Romance festival (26-29 November 2014) at Galerie NTK.

Galerie NTK
Technická 6
16080 Prague.