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Re: How old is your oldest robot

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Originally Posted by Peyton Yeung View Post
For 45, the 1992 robot is the oldest bot we still driving and functional. ... Many of the robots not on the list are still relatively mechanically intact but lack electronics.
Do you still have the 2003 Ball Drive?*

That one is very cool. It was the topic of the earliest conversation I can recall having with Andy Baker. The team had it stashed behind the hockey wall in the back of their pit, so it wouldn't confuse the inspectors.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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