[ManicMechanic]

Our slowness in posting photos has been caused not by secrecy, but more by absent-mindedness (my forgetting to ask the team if it was OK to post). In fact, we would like to take this opportunity to shamelessly market our team and robot, Desubot.

Desubot is a relatively small, fast robot whose strengths are in defense and assisting. Abilities include:
1) Scoring 2-6 (in the low goal) in autonomous
2) Quickly stealing balls from the opponent's side and herding them into the low goal (or to a high-goal alliance partner). She can also steal balls from an opponent's low goal, but this tends to be slow.
3) Climbing the platform and chinning up.
4) Despite lesser weight, surprising ability to pull robots off the chin-up bar and push them off the platform
5) Pushing/pinning the atlas ball when needed. Can't do both # 3 and #5 at the same time.

She ranked #2 in the qualifying matches at the Northern CA Championship but imploded in the semifinals, sporting not one, but 2 disconnected wires! (The wires are now anchored down VERY tightly in multiple places).

The team originally had grand designs of being able to score in the high goal that never came to fruition. They credit the teams that succeeded; in their own words, "The #1 alliance deserved to win -- both their #1 and #2 robots were better than ours," and yet realized the strengths of ours, "Despite its complete and utter lack of elegance, it was arguably the most versatile." We have no expectations about advancing to the elimination rounds, but thought perhaps a high-goal team might find an assistive robot to be useful.