Today, we will design and build a smart warehouse vehicle to help increase warehouse efficiency and keep workers safe. This system will follow a pre-determined path in a warehouse, reducing the energy required to transport goods.

In real life, Civil Engineers are responsible for designing, installing, and maintaining large industrial warehouses where this technology is used. They use artificial intelligence to make sure that warehouses are as sustainable as possible.

To use our Smart Warehouse Vehicle prototype, we’ll need some paths for our prototype to get around our warehouse!

Using 1″ matte black electrical tape on a large white poster board, create three paths for our robot to follow.

  1. A straight path across the warehouse
  2. A path with a 45-degree turn
  3. A wiggly or curved path

Hint: Our warehouse vehicle sees longer lines with gradual turns up to 45 degrees. Try spacing out your three paths on separate pages for the best results.

There are many different types of smart warehouse vehicles, but our prototype will look like this:

A final model render of Forward Education's Warehouse Delivery Vehicle build

You can complete this project in a few different ways:

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