How much does your robot weigh?
 

My team has weighed our robot minus a few very important subsystems, and we are alarmingly close to the weight limit. Naturally our next thought was how much does everyone else's robot weigh now? What are you all doing to remove weight? Thanks!

Re: How much does your robot weigh?
 

Holes. Lots and lots of holes. They don't weigh. :eek:

Re: How much does your robot weigh?
 

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=98765

You can look through that thread and get some pretty good answers for both pre and post building.

Short answer? Swiss cheese the robot.

Re: How much does your robot weigh?
 

If you do swiss cheese it, watch out for how strong the areas will be after swiss cheesing them.
Also, think about getting rid of unnecessary components of your robot (you should think through this a lot).

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I can't believe it but we're going to be....under the weight limit this year. :eek: Our robot is going to be anywhere from 90-100 pounds. This hasn't happened to 256 EVER! The scary thing is, though, once we're all underweight, we'll add more weight to get to 120 pounds, since that is our weight goal for this year (Gotta balance those bridges, you know.)

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Well, for now, our robot weighs only about 65-75 lbs, and that's not even with our lift and shooter systems yet...We can't totally get a clear exact weight because our force plate isn't big enough to fit our robot.

However, we would like to make this robot as close to the weight limit as possible, compared to our rookie robot last year that weighed only about 98 lbs and costs less than $1100 minus the 2011 KOP parts.

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roght now our robot weighs 15 pounds.

we have a few more "minor" additions before it is done.

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We have put ours on a treadmill. It should shed those excessive pounds and be in shape to compete.:)

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I hope that is withOUT the battery, otherwise you has a slight issue (The battery IS 15lbs...) XD

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Our robot will weigh 119.999999999 lbs roughly

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weird our batter doesnt weigh 15 lbs. :( no fair you get more power !!!!!

Re: How much does your robot weigh?
 

Well, 15ish lbs, give or take

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Our chassis weighs 14 pounds, WITH the battery. :p

On a more serious note, 15/120 isn't much, but it's a pretty decent amount of the robot weight. It's like a whole apparatus. It seems like the battery can quickly change the center of gravity on a robot depending on where it is. Unfortunately, our center is hollowed out to take balls in, so it looks like we'll either have to find a new place for our battery, or put it on top of our shooter, which probably won't work very well.

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Spoilers :eek:

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(Read in a sarcastic, monotone voice)

Yes. 256 is going to have their battery mounted on the very top of their robot this year. :|

:D