Re: 2015 Curie Divison
 

The one that moves and picks up bins is called Batman. The one that sits at the feeder station and builds stacks is called Robin. They used to have a 3rd robot called Alfred which I believe was only used for their autonomous mode.

Re: 2015 Curie Divison
 

Batman is their primary robot which moves stacks from the tote chute to the scoring platform. Batman also grabs RC'S. Robin is their tethered robot at the tote chute that just stacks. Alfred was their autonomous tool to move the RC's out of the way for their stacked tote set. Alfred was ruled illegal early on in the competiton season for having their low visibility tether suspended at a level that could cause problems. I'm also curious why they no longer need Alfred?

^^^Beat me to it

Re: 2015 Curie Divison
 

Are there any videos or pictures of Alfred in action? I've of course seen Batman and Robin in their reveal video and on live streams, but I never got to see Alfred. (May he rest in peace)

Re: 2015 Curie Divison
 

We are in!

Re: 2015 Curie Divison
 

148 Reveal video shows Alfred in action. I haven't seen them use it in a real match.

Re: 2015 Curie Divison
 

1816 can, we have spent the last week and a half making it much faster, at 10 Thousand Lakes we hit 100% of the time with the container captured in about 3 seconds.

Re: 2015 Curie Divison
 

Just re-watched it a few times. Is Alfred the thing that falls over at the end on the far right of the screen?

Re: 2015 Curie Divison
 

Yes. It was brilliant.

Re: 2015 Curie Divison
 

Yes. According to their Facebook post a while back, they felt they could do better without Alfred (maybe a few issues with consistency or something, possibly weight, not sure) so they went on to Las Vegas without Alfred. They made a 3 tote auto still, maybe 2 cans as well, don't remember.

Re: 2015 Curie Divison
 

148 doesn't have Alfred anymore, but somehow still manages to grab all 3 RCs during their 3 tote.
They grab one with their claw, hold another on the back, and have some kind of pole that drags the 3rd one. I don't think the 3rd one always makes it into the auto zone, though.

Re: 2015 Curie Divison
 

TEAM 4061 SciBorgs are excited to be playing on Curie ( after the curse ended last year) with all the great Curie teams.

Re: 2015 Curie Divison
 

I'm interested to see how 4613 stacks up against this field.

Re: 2015 Curie Divison
 

You are assuming that they will rank 1st and 2nd. If so, than it will be a tough combination. Remember though, that their 3rd pick will be crucial, as it will for every playoff alliance.

If they are not ranked 1, and 2, then any team ranked above one of them can poison the field by choosing and being declined as I think happened on Curie a couple of years ago.

Re: 2015 Curie Divison
 

Technically only one has to finish 1st. If 1114 finishes 1st and 148 finishes 75th then 1114 can still pick 148. However if anyone else finishes 1st they can break up the alliance.

Or you know....we can form our own alliances to the best of our ability!

Re: 2015 Curie Divison
 

To be fair they don't need to be #1 and #2, they just need one of them to be #1 to guarantee they play together if they both want to. It will be interesting to see what happens with Co-op points in their matches.