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More Dr. Doomish than Dexterish.

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Now THAT stands to be a showdown, even before you mention 233. Can't wait to see that one.

And Ed is right: With this video, things just got real. Can't wait to see it in St. Louis!

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I guess when other teams say "Guys, we can't do everything, let's concentrate on a few things" Robonauts say "LOLS. Lets be baller at everything"

Quick question, how do you guys get the ceiling camera angle? Was it used the little helicopter that took a frisbee to the face?

It will be fun to play with and against Apex at the Bayou Regional. I'm just getting really excited now.

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Incredible robot.

Videos like this always make me equally parts inspired and so angry I could spit. I see a machine shop and a full size field and a robot that obviously has been to the laser cutter and has a large student, mentor and support base and then I look in the closet we have at school and the beat up garage my fellow mentor has and the 10 students we can get to show up and the one regional we can afford to attend and just shake my head. I am shaking my head and angry at myself because I won't pursue the resources needed to compete at the elite level, because I choose to have a life outside robots as crazy as that sounds. LOL

118 obviously has an excellent program, incredible mentors, and enthusiastic students and I want to congratulate them on what appears to be one of the "elite" bots for the year. We all work incredibly hard for 6 weeks, and we are all proud of the robots we can field given our resources, and then we all take inspiration from the teams with more resources. Thanks for the inspiration 118 and I can't wait to see this bot in person at the Bayou.

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We had Can't Hold Us in our video though :(

Great robot though! Can't wait to see y'all at Bayou.

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This video actually makes me feel better about our odds. If even the Robonauts aren't hitting 4/4 volleys, maybe we have a shot after all.


MAR and FiM are. ;)

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nice.. no less than expected from the elite teams..

I knew it was possible to do everything just not in this compact a size.. very nice mechanism, I am interested to see the guts of this bot.

But I expect this to be a force through St. Louis, one thing I have learned is nothing is a guarantee but this is about as close as you can get to that.

Justin and team - good luck guys am psyched for you, and am glad last years Einstein debacle didnt bring the team down, i hope you guys make it there again this year.

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Another awesome robot this year, cant wait wait to see you guys at Lone Star and Texas will be represented real well at Silicon Valley with you guys and 148. Good Luck guys

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I have always been insanely inpressed with 118's robot reveal videos, but this years robot... is just out of this world. Talk about inspiration.

Here is my towel, go win something. ;)

- Andrew

The engineering side of me said... This is amazing... Have this done in 6 weeks is just incredible.

The competitor side of me said... I wonder how another alliance can slow it down and score more points than they do. The competition is 3-on-3. What are your thoughts?

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1114 in 2010

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They'd find a way darn those sneaky Texans!

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Seriously, just jaw dropping.

I do have one question for the group.

When your mechanism tilts your robot to grab onto the corner pole aren't your bumpers going out of the zone, does the pole make that point moot? Have you asked GDC?

I guess that's three questions :)

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How is it driving up the pole? It looks like two wheels slightly pointed toward each other, with a notch to go over the crossbars, but I couldn't tell.

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While I'm sure that they've taken this into account, it'd be a shame to see another excellent 118 designed tossed out.

- Sunny G.