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Originally posted by Matt Reiland
Amazing, I absolutely hate our 2001 robot also! It broke after nearly every match, however it single handedly made us change how we build our robots from then on, robust now is the new key word
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Absolutely! We had the same issue... we really over-designed that bot. It did absolutely everything under the sun, but did nothing well. It wasn't reliable, either. We broke the same part about 4 times. Now, simplicity and robustness are our key design requirements. The robot has to be able to survive the rigors of continual competition, and Tippy just wasn't up to that.
It really was bad, though... in all 5 of our other seasons, we never once missed the finals. That year, we never even MADE the finals...