Assembly Desk: Students bring automation to small businesses

Discover some of the great ideas that were pitched at the 2020 Surat Basin Student Designathon!

‘Assembly Desk’

The Dalby State High School team members were Braydon, Ashley, Jay and Regan.

The problem

Home startups never have enough time to assemble their own products. Labour is expensive.

The solution

A cost-effective desktop robotic modular manufacturing system for start-up businesses and time-poor entrepreneur’s.

Features

Modular, space-efficient and easy-to-use.

Market validation

The team spoke to entrepreneurs and start-up founders! They said it is important that the system in versatile, easy to access for small businesses and to date, only large businesses have access to automation.

Having the system be able to change it’s functionality is important to small businesses.

Next step

The team look further into crowdfunding, online distribution and upscaling production.