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The Robonauts robot for the 2013 competition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DojyJ...ature=youtu.be

Congratulations to all teams on getting through the last six weeks of the most challenging FIRST season to date. Good luck and see you at competition.

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Holy s...

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I've been excited about this video for days now. Raising the bar once again!

SOO EXCITED TO SEE THIS IN SILICON VALLEY!

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I have never experienced such awe and wonder while watching a robot in my life, this is a piece of art 118. Congrats on once again raising the bar into space, incredible machine.

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Motherf.......

Eyup. We give up.

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Amazing

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That is amazing. Your bot is just so darned compact. A few questions:
Good grief, how much spin are you putting on the discs??
What're the extra slanted white dashed lines on your field for?
Once you're at the top of the pyramid, is it possible for you to score colored discs?

That's an ingenious method of changing the angle of the shot. Have you found the wobble to be anything of concern?

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Once again, the Robonauts have set the bar very VERY high. Really excited to have you at SVR, see you in week 6!

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Redonkulous.

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Very cool stuff guys. Didn't disappoint. Can't wait to see the bot in San Jose.

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:{D

you guys rock.

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I just... I can't even comprehend it. Like, my brain is soup. Commas are everywhere. Sentences. Shrinking. zzzzzzzzzzzz...

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:yikes: .

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Well, here's your world championship trophy.

I'm at a loss for words. Simply amazing.

-Nick

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:eek:
Where can we sign up for your pick list?

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Well you just took all the best strategies and combined them. Gotta love the Robonauts.

-Nick

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Yea, i'm going to go ahead and give you your trophies now.

Just simply astounding. The awesomeness of this robot cannot be described in words. I have no idea how you guys do it, but you always set the bar up so high every single year. I can't wait to see it in action at the regionals!

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That was absolutely amazing. If you can dump for 20 I will just be stunned. Already stunned.

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It does everything. It looks stunning.

+1 for Macklemore.

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Absolutely unbelievable. Amazingly engineered machine. It can literally do everything*. Every mechanism on this robot is amazing; integrated together they are nothing short of true genius.


*Except dump colored discs. Come on guys, I was expecting more of you!



I've never seen Chief Delphi explode quite like this at 1:36 AM. Maybe it's all the west coasters.

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Best part about this video is how stoked I am to see this bot in person at SVR!

Simply incredible.

-Mike

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Well, Ultimate Ascent's a solved game now. Everybody can go home. :p

Nice robot, I really like it even if its cube shape reminds me of a printer.

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We have the pleasure of playing against this machine at least twice this year and I'm pretty sure that our jaws will be on the floor several times at both events. Mason, Justin and everyone at 118 you have out done yourselves. Are you hiding the fact that it flies and swims as well?

Full Court + 30 + super fast floor pickup + accurate from every position.

I'm hoping we get to play with you more times than we have to play against you.

Great Job, see you in a couple weeks.

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Well, you guys have reserved a spot on Einstein. :eek:

I always look forward to you guys reveal videos, never cease to amaze. Awesome work of art and amazing design of components. Take it easy on us at Bayou will ya?? :D

Question: What's the max number of frisbees your hopper can hold? It looks like you can hold a lot more than 4. Just curious.

Once again, great work by you guys and I can't wait to see this in person at LSR and Bayou!!

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I checked chief delphi over and over this season hoping to get a glimpse of the team 118 video which always blows me away.
I was sad i hadn't seen anything and gave up hope a few days ago.
It was well worth the wait though.
Thanks for proving all the nay-sayers wrong. All things CAN be done.

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I just watched the Endeavor video from Rebound Rumble earlier today and still enjoyed it tremendously. Apex is even better. I can't wait to see it at Lone Star.

My boys got out of bed to watch the video when they heard me describing it to my wife.

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No words. I am at a loss on how to express my feelings for this video. Simply amazing.

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Nice Job. Looking forward to seeing y'all in action at Lone Star.

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:eek: :yikes:

That about sums it up right there.

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Beautiful. Simply Beautiful.

It will be a pleasure to play with OR against you at SVR. :D

It's this kind of design/workmanship that truly inspires all teams. Though why did you have to pick the year our team revived to come to San Jose? :mad: (I kid :P)

Kudos, and see you in week six. (And maybe with a bit of luck for my team, at champs.)

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WOW... What?? How did they do that?? How does that even all fit??

Simply incredible.

Edit: Ohh and GREAT Song choice.

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Wow. I thought I'd see some pretty OP robots this year, but this is just mind blowing.

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I liked the game piece hand-off from Magic last year, I'm glad you guys did it again this year with Endeavour.

Also, the new robot's a really nice piece of work. As always with a 118 machine, it doesn't really fit in the 'categories' we have for all the other robots out there, and has some crazy mechanism nobody else has.

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Awesome robot, but everyone on here appears to have turned into surrender monkeys...

See you guys at SVR. Should be one of (if not the best) events of the year.

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There are some teams that impress me because I see their robot every year and I think "wow, why didn't I think of that?"

...Then there's the Robonauts. Every year I think "jeez you could give me 20 years and I still would have never thought of that."

Great looking robot! Good luck!

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Holy crap guys! I thought we had an awesome robot, but this is a little over the top

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We always have a "Why didn't we think of that?" moment. And this is it for me. Also, those LED's are "dope" (Will.I.Am) and Macklemore just tops it off for me. Good luck this year, I am stunned.

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Absolutely stunning. A robot that fulfills every objective with grace and style, and that can fill any role on any alliance. Excellent design, and execution. I'm at a loss for words.

Not all of us have given up!

Luck and skill permitting, we'll all meet on Einstein! :D

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I suppose this means you and 148 plan on bringing that SVR banner to Texas?

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Won't be an easy task. Quite a few elite teams ready to battle for it.

Awesome robot though, love the climbing mechanism.

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That's definitely an awesome bot. Minibotting up the corner and doing the clamp airlock maneuver around the knuckle came up in our brainstorming, but we nixed it as too complicated to pull off. Clearly that's not the case for everyone.

So I'm seeing stock in tall-ish nimble defenders going up at LSR this year...

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Will you be releasing any more in-depth information on your beautiful machine this year? I'm sure we can all learn something from 118.

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I'm speechless. Its actually the most beautiful and efficient robot I have seen since 469 in 2010. Just wow.

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This means I won't be sleeping tonight because I'll be up rewatching this video over and over again.

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I think you got a nice robot there. Can't wait to see it in competition! Great work this season.

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Beautiful job. Not sure what's gotten into everyone here, but you've succeeded in inspiring me to make our robot even better. I look forward to Lone Star and SVR!

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Definitely one of THE events to watch this season. I'm stoked!

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Could you please allow the video to be viewed via mobile?

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Building a tall mecanum robot has never felt like a better decision than it does riiiiiight now.

Super excited to compete against (or, preferably, with) 118 at Lone Star! We've got a pit about thirty feet away from you.. looks like we picked a great "learning" regional to attend! (Man, I'm drooling at the prospect of just seeing this thing...)

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There are a lot of things that you can tell from the video (like the mounting points for a third CIM in their drive gearboxes). I get the feeling that those gearboxes sitting right next to the climbing wheel might be using PTO.

The 'feet' are most likely powered by some sort of worm gear, which has the added bonus of not back-driving. Can't tell exactly what motor that is, maybe a 775?

I honestly have no clue how they are able to get discs up to the shooter from their pickup, though. From what I can tell, the 'core' of the robot is electronics and I couldn't see anything much going on in there. Although, 0:10 you can see what I think is a disc queued up, right in the middle of the robot. Also, from the shots of them shooting, it looks like there is some sort of 'bucket' holding the discs that gets raised up to the shooter.

Mini-CIM on the shooter wheel, which seems to be a curved design of unknown arc-length. I saw another motor (550?) in a gearbox sticking up behind that, probably helping feed in discs.

Their drive wheels are the same custom molded urethane they used last year. Pretty neat process, lets them make a whole lot of them and colour them the way they like. Pretty grippy too.

At 0:47 a wild Talon appears.

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I got nothing.... except for maybe some lead blocks and smaller pinion sprockets to try and keep that thing away from the feeder stations :(

Wicked cool!

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gg wp

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Can't view the video on mobile :/

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You can also see gold (anodized?) versaplanetary gearboxes for their indexer/feeder 550 and their human feeder roller motor. I'm very interested in how they stack from their ground pickup. The aerial shot shows an empty bucket style hopper but no details of how discs go in or come out. The bucket lowers for floor collection and raises up to shoot and human load. I can't tell if they are pushing in from the bottom or top. But they pull from the bottom of the stack it looks like.

It's just amazing 13+ actuations and I'm pretty sure I missed some.

Also Justin, after watching this video 10+ times this is one of your best yet. Great job.

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Discs go in. Discs come out. We can't explain that.

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I have two guesses

1. They stack like we do, power a disc under a partially supported stack. It works very well for us and seems like the most space efficient.

2. They drop the tube low enough to drop them in from the top. Keeps things consistent with your human feed system but since you have to have an opening at the front bottom to shoot from, I am leaning to theory one

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Another thing I've been thinking about now that I've watched the climbing segment a few times is how they might score a few coloured discs from up there. Ever throw a frisbee at a steep angle and have it come right back to you, or even land behind you? :p

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I would expect that they are planing on trying to get those from the ground, they have the angle mechanism and clearly a good ability for accuracy. Plus there was already a red disc in the pyramid when they climbed. I know most people have discounted getting them from the floor, but I think tonight we've all learned, don't discount anything just yet.

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If you look at around 1:40 you can see a bucket/turntable device that I would guess "spins" the frisbees into their shooter. Apex is the very definition of what my "dream" robot was this year. 118 was able to shoot full court, pickup from the floor, vary their shooting angle, and climb the corner. You can add on top of all that what looked like a multi-speed transmission and I think they achieved a great robot.

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Well, I don't reasonably expect them to try that as a viable strategy, but it would be neat to try. It would rely too much on the discs behaving the same way aerodynamically every time, which won't happen.

I think the problem with the pyramid goal is how perfect the GDC wants the discs to be in that goal, based on the Q&A about what counts in there. I know dumper teams have had issues with stacking, and I think a shooter would have consistency issues. Just from their video, it looks like there's a pretty wide range that they hit within, and I think it's a bit wider than the window for the pyramid goal. Probably why there was just one disc in there.

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Great robot, even better video. I'd love to check out Apex in person.

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Just Amazing, i was looking forward to your release video.

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So many thoughts... Where do I even begin?

First, beautiful machine. Definitely a Robonaut robot. Sleek, stylish, a little boxy, but we're all open minded, so blocks are welcome.

Secondly, SWEET HOLY MOTHER OF KAMEN. What a robot. This monster of a machine is going to be running the field in almost every match. My first inclination is to say it is perfect. Though I know nothing is perfect, I think 118 may be a top contender for being closest. It's accurate from the pyramid or the loading zone, and has a climb that's really scary, to be honest.

Third, I'm jealous. You guys have the same climbing design that we had (and rapidly pursued until last week), but couldn't figure out how to make it really work. Kudos to you guys.

And finally. Wow. Just wow. You guys rock. You guys inspire me to compete at a higher level more than any other team. I've never felt so inadequate about my own robot. 118 is amazing.

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2 wheel shooter if you didn't catch that http://screencloud.net/v/oFZa

As for the rest of the robot :ahh:
Literally the most amazing robot I have ever seen.

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2 wheel linear or curved ;)?

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It looks like the back wheel is smaller and powered by a 775 or 550 into a VP. Also the center axes seem close to lined up so it would have to be slightly curved but that might just be the video angles.

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I have to agree with Cory.
It's a beautiful robot with awesome features but last I heard making a terrific reveal video did not earn you a trip to Einstein.
118 has always made reveal video that quickened the pulse and robots that dazzled the eyes but last year was their second trip to Einstein in all of their years in FIRST(which goes to show you just how hard it is to get there). I'm sure they'll tell you more than anyone else this is just the start of the journey and we shouldn't go too overboard. 118's reveal always signaled to me that things just got real. There are teams who have been to the mountaintop who are watching the video and reading this thread, nodding their heads methodically with a sly smirk and chuckling to themselves say "Soon."

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Are those...gold VersaPlanetaries? http://screencloud.net/v/lbqp http://screencloud.net/v/iWOQ

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Probably the creepiest imagery I've read on chief delphi, but so so accurate.

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...I may have to make a quick paint job on our robot...



Beautiful, amazing robot. Dat waterjet body.

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I can so see Andy Bradley and the rest of 233 doing this while watching this video.

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All that AND it shoots down reconnaissance drones. [3:39] We'll miss seeing you in Hartford this year. That was last year's 'bot flipping a 'bee, upside down, to Apex at [2:45]. Also checking out the aerial view of the "bullpen" of previous machines just prior to that. We thought we were extravagant with 80/20 parts this year. Apex must have over $1k of pneumatics for this masterpiece. I'd gush some more, but I'd rather go back to another slow-motion viewing............

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That video just gave me chills!!!

I wish you guys were at one of the regionals I was going to, but I'll have to wait until champs to see it up close I guess :D

And I recall a conversation where Lucien was saying something like "yeah we are still just in the "pretty good" category robot wise"... SERIOUSLY?? That statement was just blown out of the water.

Beautiful machine, I hope we all can aspire to make something this amazing some day... and now I am even more excited to see what the other elite's have come up with!!

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All I can say is wow. Thank god we don't live in Texas...

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They like to travel so there is no place safe from them.

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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.

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There were teams that did this last year to get on the bridge, are the bumper zone rules different than last year?

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I love the notch in the climbing wheel to get over the corner...

Hope I get to see this thing up close in St. Louis this year.

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Don't they just have to touch the corner with the climbing wheel before tilting back?

Excellent robot, I'll be glued to the webcasts!

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Amazing robot as always! Can't wait to see it in action at Lone Star and SVR!

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Among all the phenomenal engineering, I may have been even more awed by the "shooting lights," shown at times like 0:57 and 1:36... so sweet!

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Bumper rules are all relative to your robot sitting on a flat floor.


Also, can the uploaded make the video available on mobile? I'd love to show people this on my phone

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http://youtu.be/bI5hi4c4y9k?t=37s

Omega 13 coming to a comp near you.

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Simply outstanding. I love it when teams are able to pull off what conventional thinking has defined as "impossible". (Think 71-2001, 71-2002, 469-2010)

Unrelated, a huge amount respect goes out to your videographers, that was some beautiful cinematography. (Also, the take down of the helicopter was almost as good as the robot flying through the alliance station in 2010)

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On a side note about the little helicopter getting picked off : I think IRI has found their new add on! Any team that picks off the little golden helicopter during a match get 50 extra points! It's like the Golden Snitch for a FIRST competiton!

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Now that's a cool idea.

Also: I'm disappointed... The shooting runner lights that track the frisbee would be even cooler if they were tri-color and identified the color of the frisbee passing through.