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Originally Posted by BJC

In an easier game (2011 for ex.) you can expect most of the Powerhouse teams to have 2 complete robots by day 30 and to spend the rest of the season improving, developing code, and driving.

In a very difficult game (2010 for ex.) you could expect these teams to have 1.5 robots done by day 30 and to spend their extra build season time developing their solution the the very difficult parts of the game (2010 ball gripper) while still doing the usual general imrovement, code/ auto development, and driver practice.

If you have students working hard for 12 hours a day (against child labor laws?) you could theoretically have a competitive robot by day 15-20ish. But even 118 can't do that.

Considering that you are a rookie team, despite your machining capability, I would highly suggest keeping your first robot simple to allow time for programming/ driving while keeping the bot low maintaince. Simple robots tend to win and most good robots are deceptively simple.

Hope this helps, Bryan

Thanks, that is what I was looking for. Specifically I'm wondering how long the physical building of the robot takes.