The Ultimate
Death Cycle Machine
Game: Aerial Assist
Inspiration: The 8 seed alliance from Archimedes, Team 900's robot
Abstract: The ultimate finisher and trusser all in one. Three of this robot could win einstein without trying hard.
Description:
- Extremely tall robot with a high-arcing unblockable shot (like Team 900 from 2014).
- The catapult is angled such that when the robot is in the corner in front of the opponent's low goal, the catapult is pointed directly at the human player on the opposite side of the truss
- That same angled high arcing shot is also a slightly angled fender shot (like 148's fender shot)
- The robot has a large catching funnel (similar to 1918's, but perhaps made of some sort of fabric) such that the human player could easily and consistently human load the robot when the robot is in position to make its fender shot.
- The robot has a roller ball pickup mechanism that manages to lift all the way from the floor to the top of the catapult. The mechanism is at least quick enough to hit a 2 ball auto.
- This machine can either sit by the human player station and truss the ball unblockably to the human player, sit in the corner in front of the low goal and unblockably finish with human-loaded fender shots, or deploy its traction pads and sit next to the human player on the far side for a passback in the white zone.
- Essentially a combination of 900, 177, and 624