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Re: How do you feel toward you robot?

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Originally Posted by Rick TYler

Dillon's post should be moved to a new thread and made sticky. Great insights. He managed to put things in perspective.

Hey, thanks! Always nice to hear some good feedback, and I'm honored to be nominated for a sticky :cool:

Re: How do you feel toward you robot?

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Originally Posted by worldbringer

Maybe this is heresy, and maybe it's just because I didn't spend a lot of time working on the robot itself (I was doing a lot of other stuff), but I don't consider our robot a person. The rest of our team said "goodbye" TO the robot, and wrote notes on the inside of the crate to keep the robot company while it's away.

I signed the crate since everyone else was doing that, but the robot really doesn't have feelings. It's not that I don't like the robot, I just don't think it's appropriate to spend time talking to the robot right before it ships.

Come on Z man... it has a name, we all love it, and it nearly ran over Mr. Kressly a few times. How could something like that not be human? ;)

I miss our little robot. It was my focus for six weeks and one day it's just gone, picked up by the mystery men who drive those FedEx trucks. As I've said before, I'm proud that our team was able to produce a fully function robot quite a few days before ship date and not have to pull all-nighters to do it. I think everybody on our team (except for worldbringer I'm guessing now ;) ) was both excited and sad to see our first robot be picked up and shipped off. I know I was.

Re: How do you feel toward you robot?

personally, a little nervous, it's been what now, three weeks since I've operated it and we never tested it on the ramp but once it gets to competiton I think everything we'll be fine. Hopefully.

Re: How do you feel toward you robot?

to be honest, as a team captain I'm pretty much satisfied with our robot. Compared to last year, we did a great job and were able to get things done on time. Even though our robot was not that good in performance at VCU, still we were able to win Engineering Inspiration Award, which counts the most to us. But during the course of competition we kept fixing stuff and modifying it, and now we are pretty sure that we will do good in Chesapeake Regionals.
We lost our first five matches at VCU, but after that we made a comeback and won last three. So we are pretty hopeful.

Also i was looking around the pictures of other robots, and i think each and every team did a great job. Obviously some robots are going to win and some are going to lose, but what counts more is the knowledge we gain form it and how to use it to help people our us, our community.

Good luck everyone with the rest of the Season