team xbot has pictures of our robot in CD-Media for a week or so now.
We're obviously planning on being a defender for most of the match and have achieved a nice balance between pushing power and agility. There's just no use in a powerful drive train if it's too slow to quickly react to a dynamic game.
The lifts are
very big and easy to drive onto. We do not require the same degree of accuracy required from any other ramp- or lift-bot I've seen so far. The lifts are deployed independently, though both can be dropped in a matter of seconds. Lifting requires no power at all beyond an initial 250ms pulse that releases the gas springs and the rise to 14" takes no more than 5 seconds. 2 second lift times are possible with a subset of stronger gas springs should that somehow prove necessary or helpful.
Our team's YouTube account has videos of the mechanisms in action --
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=teamxbot
We'll have some more recent footage and photos soon.