Six-Legged Animaloid Robot as a Trainer for Robotic Course

The innovation of robot technology attracts students to study and participate in many robot contests. Thus, robotic trainer is very urgent to be developed, especially an animaloid robot, which can encourage both of robotics course and robot contest. Here, the trainer was developed using seven steps of ten steps, i.e., (1) potential and problem, (2) data collection, (3) product design, (4) design validity, (5) design revision, (6) product trials, and (7) product revision. The developed trainer is a six-legged animaloid robot, which consists of five learning modules, i.e., (1) master-slave communication, (2) ultrasonic ranger, (3) motor servos, (4) flame sensors, and (5) extinguisher. The trainer was evaluated by media and material experts, where the validation results are 94% and 90%, respectively, while the validation result in the implementation stage is 87.31%. The result can be concluded that developed trainer is feasible and can be used as the learning media.