VEX CTE
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Elevating Tomorrow’s Workforce by Preparing Them for the Ever-Evolving Workplace
With the VEX CTE Workcell, designed for Career and Technical Education, students gain hands-on experience designing and programming a realistic workcell with a robotic arm, conveyors, and pneumatics. Teach industrial robotics with real-life manufacturing concepts like material handling and layout optimization.
Ages 14+
Six Degrees of Freedom
The robot arm both visually and functionally replicates a real industrial robot arm. The arm's six different rotational joints allow students to freely manipulate the end effector within the arm's workspace.
Arm maximum reach: 33 cm
Platform size: 63,5x33 cm
Layout Optimization
Plan and then reconfigure a realistic industrial conveyor system to optimize factory throughput. Utilize linear and serpentine conveyors and connect multiple Workcells to create interactions between distribution systems.
VEX CTE Workcell Kit Contains
- One robot arm
- One robot brain
- Motors
- Optical sensor
- Distance sensor
- Object sensor
- Conveyor belts
- Pneumatics
Useful Resources
VEX STEM Labs for the CTE Workcell
Unit 1: Introduction to Robotic Arms
Unit 2: Using the Teach Pendant
Unit 3: Coding Movements
Unit 4: Motion Planning
Unit 5: Absolute vs. Relative Movements
Unit 6: Transporting and Palletizing Objects
Unit 7: Stacking Objects
Unit 8: Pick & Place
Capstone Project: Engineering Design Process
Unit 1: Introduction to Workcells
Unit 2: Pick & Place
Unit 3: Sorting by Color
Unit 4: Material Transportation
Unit 5: Loading and Sorting Materials
Unit 6: System Automation
Unit 7: System Integration
Unit 8: Cooperative Systems
Capstone Project: Automated Manufacturing
Additional Courses - To Be Announced
STEM Library
- Thousands of articles on STEM and VEX
- Getting started
- Robot design and engineering
- Coding tips and techniques
- STEM fundamentals
- All online at help.vex.com
Free Online Training for Teachers
VEX Certified Educator program helps prepare you to successfully implement VEX Robotics in your classroom.
Once certified, you also gain access to a growing community of education professionals and resources, to collaborate and share experiences, materials, and teaching strategies.
