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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
33 - 2005 (switched to 6wd halfway through the year), 2009 - 0 Championships
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In 2005, we actually switched after our first competition, and pulled out the whole two crab-modules (two pods and a steering motor on a single removable block), and replaced them with four crab gearboxes mounted fixed (so we had a 4wd with pneumatic wheels, at less weight than the crab drive, and the cg offset of tetras on an arm allowed us to steer without too much bounce.) That non-crabbing robot went on to play on Einstein and win the IRI, but did not get picked at that first competition (the gripper was also partially to blame with that, but with the weight savings of loosing the crab, we could build a much better pneumatic one)
We don't talk about 2009. It sits in the basement and hasn't seen the light of day for about two years.
(47 also had a crab in 2000, FYI)