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Originally Posted by nuclearnerd
Good advice dor many, but Is that really helping the OP? They are asking what it takes to become an Einstein calibre team, and AFAIK, "Einstein calibre" teams get there reliably by building high-scoring robots, full stop. I guarantee 1678, 1114, 254, 148, 118 etc (to name a few) don't plan to fill a niche for someone else's alliance.
That said, it takes a lot of capacity building to get to the point where you're capable of consistently fielding robots that seed high. Unfortunately I can't offer any advice on how - we're not there yet  |
I think we've built niche robots in each year of 2013, 2014 and this year. In 2013, we needed a FCS to be fully effective (see 148). In 2014, we needed a goal finisher (see 1114). This year we focused on cangrabbing and were not extraordinary at stacking, just very reliable. None of our robots were extraordinary compared to, to name a few, 1717, 2056 (2013 in Curie), 1114, 971, 16 or 358, 254, 469 (2014 in Newton), 118, 1114, 254, 148, 987 (2015), and I can name several other robots that were of similar quality to ours in those years. We built our robot to fit a role in an alliance--just good enough. That's achievable by several other teams just in Northern California, and certainly other teams around the world. We started in our focus in 2012 and weren't of particular note before that. We were still working out of shipping containers in 2013.