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Originally Posted by Andrew Blair
Titanium is not all it's cracked up to be, at least from a FIRST aspect. Its extremely strong, but so is steel. Titanium is almost twice as heavy as aluminum. I can have the bragging aspect of making a bullet resistant robot, but if someone is coming into a competition and shooting my robot, I have more important things to worry about!
Check this PDF out: http://www.engr.ku.edu/~rhale/ae510/titanium.pdf |
However it does make painting your robot easy! You can anodize aluminum with a 6 volt battery and soda. Who wants to paint the Guggenheim red? Anyone? Wouldn't that be amazing! robots doing drive bys on other robots... except for the whole safety thing.... I'm just trying to picture a gangster robot.