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Originally Posted by Donut
It sounds like most teams have their bots around, but they just sit there and look good (which wouldn't be a bad thing). Does anyone use previous years robots still, for demonstrations or for practice for the upcoming year?
How did you guys get enough space to store all the previous robots? Is your team just big enough that there's a gigantic room for robotics, or did you go ask a sponsor or someone for space? The big thing I'm trying to figure out is where to get more space since I think there is very little chance we'll get any more at our school (considering we actually lost space since the golf and soccer stuff moved into our closet and hasn't been moved to the new gym despite our repeated efforts).
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We use most of our old robots as prototyping platforms and driver training. We also take the working ones out for demonstrations (especially in the spring when this year's robot is shipped). When the robots get to the point where they use components that are no longer relevant to this year's challange they get stored
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One notable exception is our 1999 National Championship robot which is mostly untouched in its niche in the shop.
Two of our less reliable robots were dismantled the next year.