Smart Recycling: The Gripper

The lesson shows how the Gripper picks up paper, cardboard, and metal from the collectors and prepares it for the Sorting Plant.

A picture of the Gripper on the Smart Team play mat

In our Smart Recycling system, the Gripper is the robot that does the heavy lifting. It collects paper, cardboard, and metal from the blue and green collection bins and places everything on the Sorting Plant.

Smart Team Smart Recycling Smart Team: Station C 8. to 10. Medium

Model solution

Model solution: Unit 2–5 (Smart Recycling: The Gripper)

Solution file to download and import into the eXperiBot Blockly app.

To ensure that the model solution provided works correctly, you must verify that the modules display the correct LED colors (see image).

The process for changing a module’s LED color is described in the knowledge base in the section Selecting an LED color.

The modular “Gripper” robot features visible LED colors on its modules: Twister is blue, Pivot 1 on the Powerbrain is blue, Pivot 2 is yellow, Grabber is blue, the front Multisensor is blue, and the right Multisensor is yellow.
Correct LED colors for the modules used in the model solution

Lesson contents

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