When U.S. Marines assist with disaster relief, they’re in a race to get life-saving cargo to victims. Join us in designing an unmanned system to support these Marines!
As climate change continues to wreak havoc on coastal lands, the US Marine Corps often gets deployed as first responders providing medical aid, food and water, and evacuation assistance.What would a robotic cargo system look like that would assist the Marines with their missions? Start designing your concept of a Ground-based Unmanned Go-between for Humanitarian Operations (GUNG HO) and earn your share of $10,000 in prizes!
Enter the challenge: launchforth.io/usmc/gung-ho-con … nge/brief/
Interesting challenge in that it does not seem to require a physical product, just a general design in CAD with full specs / details.
Coleman, thanks for your reply! You are correct, this is a design challenge.
We’re actually going to run two challenges back-to-back-- this first one is focused more on the design concept with visual (renders) deliverables. The objective here is to get a large quantity of highly creative submissions.
The second challenge, which will launch in ~6 weeks after the first challenge closes, will be more technical with CAD deliverables. The objective for this second challenge is to hone the winning concepts from the 1st challenge and flesh them out with technical specs, etc. We encourage teaming for this second challenges-- and that’s where the Roboshop community could really shine, by suggesting hardware, answering integration questions, etc.
With that said, we occasionally receive entries that go “above and beyond” with an actual prototype build as well.
Ps-- we also intend to rapidly prototype the winning design from the 2nd challenge! In many cases, the winning author/team stays engaged thru this build process, which we do off-line.
