MIT 2.007 / 2026

Building a competition robot for the full design loop.

An individual robot-design project in MIT's design and manufacturing course, finished in the top five among more than 60 participants.

ContextMIT 2.007
FocusMechanism design & iteration
ApproachDesign · make · test
ResultTop 5 / 60+ participants

A design problem with consequences

2.007 compresses the complete engineering loop into one demanding project: understand the game, make tradeoffs, develop mechanisms, manufacture a robot, and iterate against performance in competition.

Case study in progress

This page is ready for the final project narrative, build photographs, CAD images, and a short account of the mechanism decisions that determined the result. Those details will make this one of the portfolio's flagship case studies.