Course Description
Welcome to 2.007! This course is a first subject in engineering design. With your help, this course will be a great learning experience exposing you to interesting material, challenging you to think deeply, and providing skills useful in professional practice. A major element of the course is design of a robot to …
Welcome to 2.007! This course is a first subject in engineering design. With your help, this course will be a great learning experience exposing you to interesting material, challenging you to think deeply, and providing skills useful in professional practice. A major element of the course is design of a robot to participate in a challenge that changes from year to year. This year, the theme is cleaning up the planet as inspired by the movie Wall-E.
From its beginnings in 1970, the 2.007 final project competition has grown into an Olympics of engineering. See this MIT News story for more background, a photo gallery, and videos about this course.
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![A photo of the 2009 competition table, with a row of skyscrapers dividing it into an area for each robot containing cans and bales of trash to be crushed and stacked in the appropriate target area.](/courses/2-007-design-and-manufacturing-i-spring-2009/40036a167620d5dbd099a55e242f542b_2-007s09.jpg)