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Our oldest is our first robot that is semi-functioning, 2003. It is complete except for the solenoids for the pneumatics.

Others that are still functional (might need to reinstall a victor or two) are 2004, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2014, 2015.

We still have the main structures assembled in robot form for 2005, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

2008 and 2012 were both dismantled. One was for safety reasons, the other...well we don't talk about it.

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2015. ;)

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We have gutted chassis' going back to 2010 but our oldest running bot is 2013.

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Our oldest robot is our rookie (wooden) robot from 1998. A student on the team last year got the robot driving, although the manipulator didn't function. We still have every robot the team has ever made. The biggest change we have made to any bot is scrap the electronics for use.

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For us, it's 2010... Although I'm stretching the definition of "working" - it's a mecanum not, and one of the wheels fell off last year. And by fall off, I mean the entire wheel raider we built to get over the bumps broke into pieces. Fortunately, the student who built that drive train has returned as a mentor... :),

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1923's 2009 & 2011 robots (our gold-medalists) are shells in storage/will be displayed in our new space this upcoming year. We'll be adding 2015 to that display as well but will likely not keep MKI: X functional.

Our 2013 robot, RoBART, is still our demo machine. A little shaky, but the frisbees are always a crowd pleaser.

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Oldest working: 2013 (we took the climber off, but it still throws frisbees)
Oldest with all its features still intact: 2014

Robots where I can (definitely) still point out pieces of it: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, and a different team's 2012.

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For 45, the 1992 robot is the oldest bot we still driving and functional.

Functional

• 1992
• 1996
• 1998
• 2004
• 2008
• 2009
• 2011
• 2012
• 2013
• 2014
• 2015

Many of the robots not on the list are still relatively mechanically intact but lack electronics.

On 461 we only have our 2012, 2014, and 2015 robots functioning.

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Our 2014 robot was taken apart a while ago, but oddly enough our 2013 is in almost driveable state

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2667 still has our original 2008 robot in a functional state. Still running the IFI control system, too. Sadly it's not a particularly interesting robot-- it has an oak shell designed to look like a shopping cart and pretty much just drives around. That being said, I'm pretty sure we could drive it off a cliff and it would be fine.

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Our oldest robot that is still functional is from 2003, we get it out sometimes for driver practice. We also have our 1995 robot minus the electronics. We actually have pretty much all of our old robots mostly intact and scattered in buildings across the UW-Platteville campus, mostly in Engineering Hall. The only one I know for sure is not around is our 2014 robot, which was taken apart for parts.

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2012: Our Rebound Rumble 'bot, T1G3R, was disassembled within a few months. I have managed to find a few intact recognizable pieces as we moved to our new build space, that are going in a historical shadowbox.
2013: We still have the lower frame and frisbee shooter. We took off the drive and climber, and added some push-cart wheels. We used it as a demo in the spring; not sure if anything was stripped since then. The hooks are going in the shadow box, too.
2014: We disassembled the ball pickup and kicker, though the hammer and the side panels are going in the shadow box. We still have the (mecanum) chassis that we keep around in case we ever decide we want a mecanum for prototype.
2015: We're still using one for demos; I'm about 75% sure it's the competition robot. The practice 'bot was mostly disassembled, but we'll probably put the KoP drive chassis back together before build season for prototyping. The pickup rake is going in the shadow box, and we may use the cover plate from the control board as the face plate.

Non-competition: Our air cannon was begun in 2012, and the current version still has the same nanotube gearbox and chains, tanks, and probably the drive CIMs and a few fittings, but the rest of it has all been swapped out at least once.

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Our oldest working robot is our 2010 robot, Control Z, which we now use as a t-shirt and small football cannon for football, volleyball, hockey games, etc. We now call it Control Y but we will be getting rid of it hopefully soon after we build a much newer and better bot for these events.

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Do you still have the 2003 Ball Drive?*

That one is very cool. It was the topic of the earliest conversation I can recall having with Andy Baker. The team had it stashed behind the hockey wall in the back of their pit, so it wouldn't confuse the inspectors.
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2015. No sponsors. No money. We cannablize everything down to the wires.