Courtesy of JeffR (Ogre), courtesy of Tom Schindler, we have a picture of this year's robot uploaded to our site. You can view it here:
http://rage173.org/photo.php?catid=1...le&photoid=106
As to breaking our hands, we are replacing our aluminum shaft with one made of steel, and our actual hands are made from steel. Just like at the scrimmage, the robot will spin before the hands break, if it takes a high velocity or power filled hit, and if our driver sees the robot spinning, he knows to retract the hands. We will have spare hands just in case, however. The part that broke on our robot at the scrimmage, as Rob said, was a steel sprocket on the left side of our arm, that allowed our wrist to rotate up and down (useful when stacking, thus it didn't affect us at the scrimmage).. and when I say it broke, I mean it
broke.