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Originally Posted by electron
A quick look at the robots of the Technoguards, Landroids, or Say Watt, and it seems the word "simple" is not the their vocabulary!
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The Techno Guards' robot this year and last were definitely not "simple", but they were what they needed to be based on the design concepts that the team came up with.
When the team started this year, they wanted a simpler robot than last year's incredibly complex one. But they also wanted to do something really cool. The game itself required a relatively complex manipulator, and the rest of it just happened. In reality, the final mechanism of each of the subsystems ended up simpler than the prototype.
The Techno Guards motto has always been "OK, it works, now take it apart and build it right". That has always led to things that look more complicated, but actually are simpler - just with more customization. The mechanical guys got very used to hearing "that's a great idea, it just means that to put it in right, you have to rebuild this part too...".
Simple is good, though... the Face-Off robot was simple, and it was able to do everything that the team wanted to do for the game. (
http://technoguards.org/node/211)