Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

2013: 469, 1986
2014: 2481, 254, 67, 971, 1986, 16, 846 (favorite year tbh)
2015: 1114, 2826
2016: 16, 254, 5172

Favorite of all time has to be 469 in 2013, I'm astounded even now every time I look at that robot

Also, special shoutouts to teams 71 and 842 for producing excellent robots despite not a lot of resources

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

2005 - 233
2006 - 25
2007 - 469, 703
2008 - 1114, 27, 832
2009 - 67
2010 - 469
2011 - 1503
2012 - 67
2013 - 469
2014 - 2451
2015 - 148, 1114
2016 - 67, 217

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

But it would have been SO SICK.
Then there were all these other hypotheticals of how to beat a perfect death cycle. It was cool stuff.

Just imagine how sick it would have been to see some sort of perfect death cycles with robots like 900 and 1918 against a 254-2056 Waterloo-type repeatable catching alliance.

See now you got me started on it. :rolleyes:

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

Favorite robots by year:

2009: 1625 - no seriously, 67 and 111 got all the hype at the end for winning worlds but without question 1625 was the best scorer of 2009. They put more balls in the goal than anyone else, they dumped faster than anyone else, they were quick, had great floor pickup, the whole package.

2010: 469, 1114

2011: 254, 1538, 1503

2012: 341, 16, 2826, 67

2013: 469, 67, 1114, 3467

2014: 254, 4039, 469

2015: 1114, 148, 118

2016: 195, 1058, 330, 125, 254

I'm sure I'm forgetting several and will come back to edit

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

I really love 469's 2010 bot. A truly game-breaking design.

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

I remember waiting in line for a practice field at Champs and watching them make something like 80 shots in a row. I didn't know about their team before that year, but I think that robot more than any other showed me what was possible in FRC.

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

Somewhat off topic, but have you read "The New Cool" by Neal Bascomb? It largely follows D'penguineers through their 2009 season.

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

I have now, but at the time I was a sophomore that was just starting to "get it." Great book-- I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who hasn't picked it up.

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

If we're doing year by year:

2001: 71
2002: 60
2003: 111
2004: 60
2005: 233
2006: 1114
2007: 233
2008: 233/1114
2009: RIP
2010: 469
2011: 1114
2012: 67/118
2013: 469
2014: 2056
2015: 1114
2016: 971

Favorite string of robots ever is 233 from 2005-2008. Absolute works of art. The level of detail and awesome displays of manufacturing processes were endless. Plus they were all like, pretty good.

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

Mike D. is one awesome mentor that teams should try and learn from. Many teams that waterjet today can look back to his work as their source of inspiration. It definitely did for our program, which is why I pushed to buy one 5 years ago.

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

One of my favs was WildStang's bot in 2004. First robot I had seen that used a GUI (called StangPS) to pre-program where your robot would go in Auton. As a student, I was really impressed and became motivated to learn as much as I could about autonomous motion control.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...hlight=StangPS

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

118's 2011 bot always and forever (closely followed by their 2014 bot)

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

Here are some bots that really grabbed my attention. I really like when teams come up with simple and elegant solutions, or have breakout years and finally get noticed. I guess I'm a bit of a robotics hipster...

2007: 330
2008: 39
2009: 2753
2010: 910
2011: 3539
2012: 180
2013: 610
2014: 4488
2015: 1023
2016: 5172

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

One of the critical aspects of 1717 in 2012 was that the abilities of the robot, to out maneuver defenders and score at a high enough rate to clear all the balls from their side of the court. This allowed them to change the meta of the game, which was to have 2 offensive robots and 1 defender robot. They essentially changed the game into robot on robot defense, where the opponent side of the field was very crowded with 4 robots, and the 1717 side only had 2 robots. This made it even easier for 1717 to maneuver around collecting balls and returning to safe shooting locations. Changing the game meta has a huge impact on matches and events giving the other alliances seconds to adapt or minutes figure out strategies to counter which is very difficult. Interesting that 2016 constrained the meta by limiting the number of defenders to 1 robot.

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

While 1717 was really darn good, I don't think the single offensive robot strategy would have worked against a high level alliance that year (like 1114/2056/4334).

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

27 in 2010. Their climb was incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgCZglrunO0#t=2m5s

Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
 

As the game strategy guru on my team, my favorite robots are the ones that teach the biggest lessons. My list isn't of robots that were at the top of the class in their respective years (although, there is a lot of overlap), but it's a list of robots that I talk about the most when discussing game strategy with my students.

2002 - 71 - The best example of a well-executed choke-hold strategy. No game strategy discussion is complete without mentioning this robot.

2005 - 330 - A simple, well-executed, and well-driven robot can win it all.

2006 - 25 - The lesson here is that a phenomenal robot doesn't need to do everything and to not devalue the human player. In my opinion, they had the best robot in 2006 and they couldn't even pick up balls off of the floor.

2008 - 1114 - Possibly the most influential robot ever built. We see elements of its design being used years later in both Aerial Assist and Stronghold. This robot is the best example of a robot combining functions into one mechanism.

2015 - 1519 - This one is a little different because it's not just the robot; it's the whole strategy behind it. 1519 developed an interesting strategy and perfectly designed their robot to fit that strategy. They fell behind at championships due to their limitations but they absolutely dominated the New England District. They were #1 seeds and winners at every NE competition they attended with their humble robot.