How do you find a good robot engineer/design?

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How does the average Joe that knows nothing about robots get a decent designed robot?

I’m talking about a guy like myself, sure I could put years into learning all about robots, but that’s not what I’m looking for.

So where do I start? Yes I could go to Google and pick a company but that limits the creativeness to that particular team.

I thought I would go to a robot forum like this and get knowledge and experience from all the users. But I don’t want to mooch I want people to feel like the design that I walk away with was paid for.

How do I go about getting input from the robot designers here? How has it been done in the past?

Do I list my project and get bids?

Are contests acceptable? What is a reasonable prize amount for a design contest?

All I want is a good designed robot, how do I start?

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Hi and Welcome to the forum :slight_smile:

You can talk about your robotic projects here and people from the robotic community will interact with you providing feedback, suggestions and ideas.
There is also the Let’s Make Robots forum which is a good source of information about robotics.
In the Let’s Make Robots forum, people share their projects and provide tutorials that can be useful for other robotic enthusiasts.
A good starting point would be this page here : robotshop.com/letsmakerobots/start-here
You can start with this DFRobotShop Rover V2 - Arduino Compatible Tracked Robot that will help you learn about Arduino programming and the basics of robotics.
Or the Let’s Make Robot kit following the instructions to assemble and program the robot here.
The RobotShop Blog Articles can also be very helpful when starting with robotics.
Here some articles that you might find interesting :

]How to Make a Robot Lessons/:m]
]How to Make a Drone / UAV Lessons/:m]
]How To Build A Simple Robot/:m]
]Arduino 5 Minute Tutorials/:m]
]How to Build a Simple Robot – Beetle Robot/:m]
Hope this helps and wish you good luck in your learning process.

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Thanks for the reply but you’ve missed the point of my thread. I’m not wanting to learn how to design my own robot. I’m looking for someone else design it.

I know that the design will make or break my idea. A poor design will ccontinually hamper the purpose of the robot. It would take years for me to learn, design and build something efficient enough for what I looking for.

How do I go about finding someone to design my robot.

Were exactly should I post my project?

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Hi again,

Our apologies as we thought you are planning to learn about robotics to design and build your own robot :slight_smile:
You can post your project here in this forum in a new topic or you can post it on LMR.
We unfortunately as RobotShop don’t offer consultation and design services, however, the other solution would be to look online for a professional robotic consultation company but this would be in the expensive side.

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Another suggestion would be to submit the project to a university’s capstone project.
You will probably have to pay for it, but it will certainly be less expensive than a professional company and you will have a small team of undergraduate engineers working on it.

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So it can’t be talked about if I’m not making it myself?.. if I’m not the guy doing the electronics?..

Well I don’t even know what I want yet besides a device with wheels that knows where it’s at on a mapped driveway and can move side to side and moving 2 inches forward at each side till it completes the map.

So I suppose I’m going to have learn about robotics to design my robot.

:slight_smile: