By research on three principles:combination of folk art and modern design

delight-oriented design and humanized design

this paper adds a kind of folk art"shadow puppet"in the process of image design for the robots entering the competition

integrates the mechanism with characteristics of shadow puppet harmoniously

combines traditional art with modern machinery and finally presents a robot shadow play with Chinese characteristics.It also explores new packing and plot for the story of Journey to the west

endows the robot team entering the competition with delight-oriented feature and thus makes it as"bright color"in the competition.In addition

by choosing different kind of material

including cloth

engineering plastics

and PVC tubes and so on

it breaks the single choice of material for appearance design of domestic robots

and then explores an innovation road for robot design.