[Mark Sheridan]

So far I have seen a lot of teams use concepts from the 3 day builds either to to justify their own designs or as inspiration for better ones. I have seen very few straight up copies. Seems like every el toro mechanism is superior than the original.

Plus there are a ton of "1114 '08" style bots but so far every version I have seen is radically different. The only similarity is a roller claw at the end of a puncher. Seems like every bot has a different take on geometry and degrees of freedom. The mechanisms for the puncher have changed a lot for the longer shot distances. I feel this is analogues to cars. A lot of cars of piston internal combustion engines in the front but there is a huge variety.