HaoCheng Yang

‘Ulla’ is a robot which can help people make an abandoned place to be greener and filled with trees, grass and flowers. This robot Ulla which comes from the word Ypa in Russian, meaning go ahead and charge. And my robot is like an umbrella, so I combined these together which means - go ahead to make places green. I designed Ulla to be used in an abandoned mine in China. Fortunately, it can be used in every wasteland. This is a chance to make up for our damage to the Earth. This project will be set in 2077, which refers to one video game, called ‘Cyberpunk 2077’. My idea comes from a film called ‘WALL-E' which tells us a story of some small robots cleaning the rubbish in the entire world.

These stations can allow Ulla to get into the station when they are broken or out of fuel. The workers will repair and refuel them. I considered making the station fully automatic, but it will cost more and create more junk to maintain these stations. My goal is to reduce pollution and waste, so people should do their jobs by themselves. The station is powered by solar energy to decrease the waste.

Robot Ulla. It is like a huge umbrella. There is a soil tank, it can hold soil and spread it around by soil pipes. It is also powered by solar energy. The rotating connections allow the seed tank to rotate and spread seed by centrifugal force. The main structure can extend or shrink by several pipes in order to suit every height and cater for the small hills in my site. At the bottom, the stabilisers hold the whole robot, strongly, at the same position on the ground when it is rotating. Track system references my favourite thing, tanks. It allows the robot to run safely and easier on the rocks and dust.

As you can see, the main structure of the Ulla system is a huge control room. It allows workers to remote control Ulla robots to spread seeds and their paths. I considered making it automatically move and work, but solar energy is sometimes not enough to make the whole system run. If there is rain, solar energy will not work. In the future, I think wind power and solar energy can work together in order to get power stability.

Detailed drawings show you what is inside of the Ulla systems.