Re: What do you do with your old robots?
 

With us, we use "Jerry" to practice driving. "Virginia" is used for demo with the large ball. We might use "Carmen" for programming practice with LabVIEW. I don't know about the rest.

Re: What do you do with your old robots?
 

If we did that, it would cause 2 revived threads instead of 1. Besides, there is nothing wrong with thread revival as long as it is done properly.

Keys to proper thread revival:
1. The topic must still be applicable to today.
2. The thread being revived should contain no flaming.(please don't revive old arguments)
3. Make sure the post you make in the old thread add something to the thread.

As long as these three are met, revive the thread.

Erich: According to standard delphian practice the thread you referenced shouldn't have been made. The OP for that thread should have been a revival of this thread in the first place.

Just my 2 cents.

Re: What do you do with your old robots?
 

We rip ours apart for parts... it's kind of sad, actually. It seems to have been improving, though; in 2007 (when I joined) we only had our 2006 competition robot, and that got cut apart to be a useable drive base halfway through build. The 2007 robot lasted about as long, but this year we kept our 2008 robot mostly together. The only problem with it now is we stripped a globe motor to repair our practice robot, but the rest is still fine. Hopefully the team will keep the practice and keep that one and our 2009 robot together...

Interestingly we had about 8 robots in our plant during build season: 2009 competition robot, 2009 practice robot, 440's robot, 3096's robot, 3098's robot, a fully functional prototype (made out of wood and breaks pretty much every rule for inspection, but still), and 2 prototype drive bases (kit base tank steer and 3-wheel). This is excluding robots that just came every now and then to try out the field (such as 3095 or a couple of other teams).