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Re: Killer Robots on Science Channel

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Originally Posted by rsisk View Post
I saw at least one person from the FIRST and CD world: pitzoid of 4FX Design was part of the team with the claw that was defeated in the first round of competition.
The Raging Scotsman was built by the Piedmont Scotbots (FTC team #3873). Ray Billings of Last Rites fame mentors a team (not sure which) and is always trying to get more combot builders to do the same. I am sure there many more that I don't know of.

As for myself, I am a Team 79 alumnus and mentor. I built Gruff before joining the USF Robotics Interest Group, but we now compete as a team (RIG also competes with several lower weight class combat robots).

For what it's worth, Gruff is the only combot running an IFI control system.
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